A Doll's House

Melissa Junkin Mr. Venne ENG 104 3 October 2000 Nora the Child Henrik Ibsen’s, A Doll’s House, contains significant childhood images concerning it’s main character Nora. Using metaphors, Ibsen portrays Nors as a child. She is a child-woman, a child-wife, and a child-mother. Through her interactions with other characters, one can see the internal child within Nora: she is a little girl, living in a doll’s house. She was her father’s doll, Torvald’…showed first 75 words of 867 total…

…showed last 75 words of 867 total…he pleases and she conforms to his wishes almost completely. But little Nora is not without dolls of her own: the children. There comes a time when it is time to grow up and stop playing with dolls. There comes a day when independence is inevitable, and one must move on. Nora finally takes this step in the final scenes of the play. She will no longer live in a doll’s house. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**