A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen is a play in this play Ibsen talks about how important women’s rights are. Nora Helmer who throughout much of the play is treated like a child, she then truly has no idea of who she really is therefore she tries to find her true identity. Nora is controlled and put down by the manipulation from Torvald. Torvald is very controlling and puts his social status and his job ahead of his wife that he supposedly loves. Torvald is a man that cares more about his reputation than his wife’s feelings. Nora and Torvalds’s relationship from the outside view appears to be a happy. The further the play goes along the more Nora realizes how her husband treats her like a child and how phony her marriage really is. Torvald sees Nora's only role as being a loving wife and not truly as human being. He refers to Nora throughout the play as his little squirrel, little lark, and many other demeaning names. To him she is only a possession the same as a piece of furniture or a car. …show more content…
Whenever she has an opinion on something Torvald quickly insults her as a women saying she couldn’t possibly help because she is just a woman. Nora throughout most of the play has an inauthentic identity which is when a person believes their personality is the same as their behavior. Nora was inauthentic because her situation was all that she had ever known. She is a grown woman that was treated like a child all her life by men. She believes that Torvald thinks that he is her god and she is only there to please him. Nora goes through life with the illusion that everything is perfect, until she realizes that she is treated more like a servant than a