Nora In Henrik Ibsen's Paper Doll

Nora may not be the most outstanding role model but she didn't need to abandon the children. Nora is not just being a bad mother she is abandoning her children completely. First of all, as a mother they have a duty to be not only a great wife but care for their children. She has called this man, Torvald Helmer, a stranger and just leaves her own children with him. Nora does not have the right to leave because her children's development, Nora's responsibility, Torvald's fathering or lack of, and Nora's wrong way of maturing. Nora is very adored by the children, to abandon them it would be selfish and rough for the children's development. "No, mother; but will you come and play again?" (Pg. 1357) For a child's development they need a mother

Torvald wants nothing to do with his children only loves Nora and treats her like his baby. There is no evidence that he ever spends time with his children or bonds with them. Nora spends time with her children and there is evidence in the story. "She and the children laugh and shout, and romp in and out of the room" (Pg. 1353) Without Nora the children will get no loving from any parent. Torvald is being hypocritical when he says Nora has spread lies in the family but then he says they must acts as if everything is the way it was after he finds out what Nora did. Torvald and Nora must lie to the public but in closed doors he will have nothing to do with her. If Nora left to find herself to mature in her own but she could have still done that if she stayed with her family. "You talk like a child. You don't understand the world in which you live." (Pg. 1387) It's not entirely the family environment that makes her not be able to mature, it's because she thinks that way. Just because it is her responsibility to stay with her family doesn't mean she has to keep Torvald in the house or at least not try to work it out with him. He could stay in a different room than Nora and the children and still help with supporting his