Write a 6 page essay on Character Analysis of Nora from A Doll's House.Download file to see previous pages... In a dolls house, Ibsen has combined several characters with diverse personal qualities an

Write a 6 page essay on Character Analysis of Nora from A Doll's House.

In a dolls house, Ibsen has combined several characters with diverse personal qualities and used them to develop the story line as well as bring to life the major themes and issues that the plot is meant to address. Primarily there are two types of characters who can be categorized as static and dynamic, the static characters remain the same form the start to the end of a story and despite the events taking place around them, and they do not change their perception or altitudes. These types of characters are often “punished” for their inflexibility especially when there are antagonists. In A doll’s house, Nora’s husband Torvald is depicted as such, he treats Nora like she is a child and proves incapable of understanding the depth of her inner feeling or her personal strength which albeit not manifest at first are preset nevertheless. At the end of the play, he is still holding on to the same patronizing altitude and this results in her leaving him claiming quite rightly, that he does not understand her....

mature and cunning innocently and childish, and this is further compounded by her husband who is the extreme opposite of playfulness, and he is condescending and treats her as one would expect him to treat a small child. However, she appears submissive to his chauvinist patronizing and fits into the role of the “Doll”. Overtly, Nora appears to be naive and to some extent juvenile, she responds good naturedly to his sometime biting criticism and although instead of talking to her husband as an equal would, she coaxes favors out of him as a child would a father. Nevertheless, despite the overt childishness, information revealed through flashback and dialogue in her conversation with Christine and Krogstad reveals another side to her that she has been living a double life (Ibsen 15). Her husband had fallen sick and she since they could not afford to cater for his stay in Italy for a year as the doctor had recommended, she had taken loans and fraudulent gotten money that she had used to fund the trip. She did this by forging her father’s signature so she could get a loan from the bank. Her selfless and loving nature is herein evidenced since she never told her husband or anyone else to save him from embarrassment and chose to bear the burden of repaying the debt on her own. She did this by taking odd jobs whenever she could and skimming on her allowance and shopping money, on the outside she appeared to be an extravagant housewife but this was a just a cover for her interior motives. The audiences’ understanding of her character changes drastically at this point since they see beneath the childish veneer there is a cunning intrepid woman who would do anything for the sake of her family and to protect them even if it meant risking her security and happiness.