The Growth of Nora in A Dolls House :: A Dolls House Essays

The Growth of Nora in A Dolls House   In the play A Dolls House, written by Henrik Ibsen, Nora, the main character of the play, decides to abandon her husband, her home and her children in order to find herself. She finally realizes she has to leave when confronted with a problem in her relationship with her husband, who keeps treating her like a doll, reflecting the childish treatment she always received from her scram before. She finds the strength to leave with her childhood champion Kristine, who has led a touchy life, and has the wisdom to guide and support her. Nora leaves the role of the doll child and doll wife she played her whole life, and becomes an independent self-thinking adult, when she realizes that the world is different than she always image it was, and that she herself is not who she thinks she is.              Nora lives in a envisage world, a child fantasy, where everything is perfect, and everyt hing makes sense. She thinks that the world would never condemn a woman who tries to save her husbands life or shelter a dying father. When confronted by Krogstad, who tells her it is against the law to sign someone elses signature, she responds This I refuse to believe. A daughter hasnt a right to protect her dying father from anxiety and care? A wife hasnt a right to save her husbands life? I dont know much about laws, but Im sure that someplace in the books these things are allowed. Nora simply does not understand the ways of the world, and the final realization that she is in real danger of risking hers and her husbands reputation, and worse, makes her snap out of the childish dream she had been living.              Kristine, Noras childhood friend, is the wisdom and support Nora needs to grow up. Kristine is a woman who has been in the real world, unlike other wives of Torvalds friends. At the same time, Kristine is a friend from Noras childhood, a person who she can tell her problems to and relate to in some way. Also, unlike everyone else who surrounds Nora, Kristine tells her the truth, she does not pamper her.