Victimisation in Henrik Isben's PLay "A Doll's House"

Nora Helmer of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, is constructed as a victim of the society in which she lives, to the extent that she is living in the male dominated 19th Century, however she breaks free and overcomes the ideas and expectations that her society place on women. She realises that ‘[she’s] lived by performing tricks for…Torvald’, not really knowing who she is. Society placed expectations on women of those times to support and love their husbands, stay within the confines of her home, obey her husband utterly and completely and to fulfill her most sacred duty, to her husband and children.

This 19th Century society victimises Nora to the extent that women were not allowed to borrow money without their husband’s consent, but Nora overcomes this social obstacle by forging a signature and borrowing the money anyway. When Mrs Linde asks Nora how she could afford the trip to Italy, she voices the views of her male dominated society, ‘because a woman cannot borrow withou...