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Unexpected, undeveloped and improbable, a brief summary of the ending to Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll House. In the ending of A Doll House the protagonist Nora comes to the realization that her husband, Torvald, has been treating her more as if she were a small child than an equal in their marriage. Due to this realization Nora sit Torvald down and tells him she will leave him and at the culmination of the scene, she does. Though the scene has valid intentions, it seems to come short in development leading up to it and in Nora's unforeseen transformation in personality, yet does well in drawing a close on any themes of significance. Development, or the track thereof is one of the major downfalls of the ending. Nora doesn't slowly begin to realize …show more content…

A lark according to dictionary.com is a small ground-dwelling songbird bird. In all honesty, this a very good description of her up until she in the blink of an eye completely becomes something of the other. A lark doesn't just decide to fly one day, no bird does for that matter. First there have to be signs that's it's capable of flying such as wings specifically designed for it or the bird seeing another bird like it flying. Then it has to flap its wings around a bit, fall a few times, then get back up and flap them some more. Ibsen's seems to expect the reader to believe that Nora just decided to jump out of a tree one day and was completely able to fly. There weren't any signs that she was cable of standing one her own once she's left nor were there any sign of her knowing her self worth. Even if Torvald was unaware of her capability of thinking in such a matter, the reader should have at least been shown some signs of it. The argument that with Dr.Rank she was this other person where she was free to think and speak as she felt isn't very valid either. Sure Nora is different with Dr. Rank maybe even a little freer but not much else can be said. Nora goes from "[I love you and] whatever you do is always right [Torvald]" (100) to "[I no longer love you and] you don't understand me"(108). This sudden flop in her views and with such little explanation leaves the reader

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