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Back to category: English Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. A Mere Product of His Society/Torvald in a Doll House A Mere Product of His Society Torvald Helmer’s behavior towards his wife, Nora, thoroughly demonstrates how men of his era treat women as nothing more than insignificant items to be possessed and shown off. In other words, he is a stereotypical nineteenth century bourgeois male who lives his life according to society’s norms. He is smug, pompous, self-righteous, hypocritical, selfish, and a bit thick-headed. He has worked so hard to provide for his family and to rise to his present comfortable place in the social hierarchy. Therefore, since his greatest fear is losing that place, he is inordinately concerned with appearances and with maintaining a spotless reputation and a great deal of respectability. He thinks he loves his wife, but what he loves is an idea of his wife, an idea of her as a pretty doll that he can play with or a child whom he can manage and protect. The more Nora depends on him, the more important he feels. Th... Posted by: Adriana Alvarez Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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