Handmaind's Tale and A Doll's House comparison

A hero is a person who has completed an act that is positive towards others. In many novels the author assigns heroic traits to the main character which causes the reader to root for this character. This is the case in both The Handmaid’s Tale and “A Doll’s House”. Both of the strong leading female characters are heroic. They share heroic traits one of which is sacrifice. The second trait being that both women have the ability to perservere. As well as sacrifice and perseverance, courage is shown within both leading characters. Offred and Nora both exhibit certian characteristics which allow them to be considered heroines.
Sacrifice is giving up wants and desires in order to benifit society or otehr people. Both Nora and Offred do this allowing them to be considered heroes. Nora gives up materical items that she enjoys, in order to pay off a loan. The loan was taken in order to save her husbands life. “Whenever Torvald has given me money for new dresses and such things...