Nora Is A Doll's House Ignorant

While Nora may be seen as a victim for only doing what she thinks is best for her family, she is guilty of creating almost all of the problems she has in her life. Although Nora is ignorant when it comes to her family’s finances, she tends to put the wants and needs of the people she loves before herself. When her husband was deathly ill, she needed to borrow money to save his life. Although she went to extreme measures, she only did so because her father (whom was made of money) was also deathly ill and she didn’t want to worry him with her troubles. In this sense, Nora is both nurturing and selfless. While Nora is very loving towards her family, she is mostly guilty of the problems in her life and the measures she took in order to “fix” them.

Not only did she fail to talk to him before borrowing the money, which is the respectful thing to do in a marriage, she also went behind his back to make payments and decided to never let him know that she borrowed it. Next, Nora is not a completely submissive and controlled housewife like she tends to come off as in the majority of the play. She is very flirtatious towards Doctor Rank, whom is not her husband. In A Doll’s House, during one of their conversations, she tells him “Be nice now, Doctor Rank, and tomorrow you’ll see how beautifully I’ll dance, and you can pretend that I’m doing it just for you” (Ibsen 1627) and when showing him her silk stockings, she says “You’re only supposed to look at the feet. Oh well, you have my permission to look at the legs too” (Ibsen 1627). Nora is being sexual towards Doctor Rank by showing him her legs, which is very scandalous behavior for a married woman. Finally, when Nora is trying to “fix” the problems she has caused for herself, she decides that she is going to walk out on her family to “find herself.” She decides not only to walk out on her husband, but her children as