A Doll's House

After reading the three-act play called A Doll’s House, I have a few responses about four topics that relate to the performance compared to how women were treated today. The protagonist’s husband named Torvald Helmer, I feel that he was not a villain but rather he was insensitive, and insecure man who was unaware of how his wife, Nora, was being treated by him. Although, I do feel some sympathy for the man despite not living up to his role of being an equal husband, as he had saved up his money and was debt-free, but I do not think his wife wasn’t deceiving. Torvald was assuming his role as the traditional husband where whatever he says goes, and his wife, being the second-in-command in her family heeding her husband’s orders as the breadwinner in the family. Nora at the beginning of the play thought that her role as housewife was the norm until she had realized how unfairly treated she was actually being; she was being treated like a child rather than an equal adult. I think Torvald will change, provided that he starts treating Nora like an adult and an equal partner. This was shown when Torvald

As I followed along the plot of the play, I noticed that Nora was clueless and later was feeling underestimated and misunderstood by her husband, In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House Nora told her husband in Act III “No, that is just it. You don’t understand me; and I have never understood you- till to-night. No, don’t interrupt. Only listen to what I say.- We must come to a final settlement, Torvald.” Nora probably not might come back to Torvald, depending if her living on her own doesn’t work out for her and as for the abandonment of her children, she may had hung up her role as mother but they have a motherly figure in her