Henrik Isbens A Dolls House Essays -- A Dolls House Essays

1A Dolls theatre of operations A Dolls House represents a womens marital life from many years ago. The key theme of this play is Noras rebellion against society and everything that was expected of her. Nora shows this by breaking away from each(prenominal) the standards and expectations her husband and society had set up for her. Women were non considered of importance to their husbands and that made women feel like in a dolls house, such as with Nora and her husband Helmer. In her time women were not supposed to be independent. They were to support their husbands, take care of the children, cook, clean, and make everything pure(a) around the house. Nora had two main rebellions her taking break the loan, and when she left her family, and everything was all planned out by her. Noras first rebellion was when she took out a loan so that she could pay for her husband, Torvalds medical treatment. It was against the fair play for women to take out a loan without their husbands cons ent. When she did this she proved that she was not as submissive and helpless as Torvald thought she was. He called her helpless. A perfect example of Torvalds control and Noras submissiveness was when she got him to re-teach her the tarantella. She already knew the terpsichore but she acted as if she needed him to re-teach her the whole thing. When he says to her Watching you jounce and dance the tarantella makes my blood rush. This shows that he is more arouse in her physically than em...