In A Doll's House, a play by Henrik Ibsen; Nora is a passive character with little personality. Her life itself reflects society's norms and expectations of women. His whole life is a joke and he lives in fantasy, until he realizes it. A dark characteristic of Nora is that she is irresponsible with money, which leads her to conflict in the play and also leads her to deviate from the norms of her society. At first, Nora is childish and apathetic. The first act begins with Nora and the birthing body. His service costs 50 pence, but she gives him a hundred. Additional 50 p. it may not seem like a significant amount of money, but the way he is not patient enough to wait for change shows that he is careless with money. Later in the first act, Torvald, Nora's husband forbids her from buying sweets and scolds her for being a "spendthrift". This clearly shows that Nora's husband thinks that she spends money irresponsibly and must govern her to ensure that she does not overspend. When Nora is first introduced, she is seen more as a child than an adult woman. this reflects Nora's attitude towards her place in society and shows that she is living in a fantasy. For example, Nora always tries to make herself happy by spending money. She buys clothes, toys, candy, etc., instead of working on her relationship with Torvald or her children. She never spends serious time with her husband and always leaves her children with the nurse. Throughout her fantasy life, Nora is passive and becomes an object of her husband, rather than doing anything meaningful. As a result, Torvald is possessive of her and treats her like a "doll" instead of a human being. This is reflected in the nicknames... in the center of the paper... he tells her to leave, as it would make a bad impression on both of them. In her final act of defiance against Torvald and the society she lives in, Nora lets Torvald know that she is independent and can dictate her own actions, then leaves. Nora and Torvald both conform to the norms of their society throughout the play, until Nora's irresponsibility towards money shatters the illusion of their lives. Nora starts out as a passive, typical housewife of her time, but as the show progresses, her conflict with Krogstad shows how she is slowly drifting away from what would be her place in society. At the end of the play, when Torvald discovers the blackmail and refuses to defend her, his perceived reality is completely shattered. She then realizes the fiction she has been living and takes the courageous step of detaching herself from Torvald and her traditional role in society as wife and mother...
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