A Doll House

In the drama a doll house, the character Nora Helmer goes through a big change from the beginning of the drama to at the end. She makes a life ultering decision, not only a decision that affects her life, one that would have consequences to all that the people she once held dear to her. At the beginning of the drama, Nora is very much happy and content with her simple life as a wife and mother who stays home while her husband works and supports her and her children. Her character develops from someone who is not really independant and someone who is not really living the life to someone who starts contemplating her existence and where she fits in this (her) world. Nora starts out in the drama as a housewife who enjoys life's simplest pleasures

The plot thickens and Nora’s husband Torvald finds out about his wife's misconduct and reacts so differently than what Nora hoped for that even after she is told that her secret will not be told to everyone as Krogstad originally planned, she is disappointed in her husband and hastily evaluates her life. After evaluating her life and everything/everyone in it, she makes a decision that i know i certainly did not ever see coming. at first glance i have to say that i did not agree with Nora’s decision to leave her family behind and go out on her own, i pretty much agreed with Torvald when he said "before all else, you're a wife and a mother" (page 1151, para. 1). i also thought that nora had a duty as a mother and wife to stick by them and if she wanted to find herself, she would have to do so as a wife and mother first. it almost seemed as though Nora had turned into some kind of emotionless robot who had no care for anyone she knew or previously loved, she was ready to leave everyone behind and i did not like her character for that very reason, i know it was a different time but that should not be an excuse to be able to leave your family behind, children without a mother and a husband without a wife, all because she had to "Discover who was right, the world or