How Does Nora Change Throughout The Play

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Nora plays the role of protagonist in the play married to Torvald Helm. At the beginning of the play she seems naïve and lacks any knowledge regarding anything outside her household. The naïveté expressed by Nora gets captured in this quote in response to Mrs. Linde saying women may not borrow money "Couldn't I? Why not?" In reality the readers find out she knows a great deal about the outside world by her conversation with Krogstad. Torvald and Nora have an interesting relationship he treats her as a child evident in the nicknames like "little squirrel" and enjoys the great deal of authority given to him over her as well as his new position that he obtained in the bank. Tovald seems to be overly interested in his status in society evident at the beginning of the play when he had just reached a position of power within the bank and was fearful of losing it if Nora spent too much.
2. Mrs. Linde has been friends with Nora for many years. She brings a sense of practicality to Nora's worldview. She also shows the readers a contrast in the poor (her) and privileged life (Nora). This characterization is evident within the discourse over Nora's spending habits. As Tolvald's best friend Dr. Rank play's an important role in the play because unlike the others he doesn’t care what society thinks of him and accepts his flaws as they are. He stands for physical disease (" I want to prolong the agony as long as possible") while Krogstad stands for moral disease. Krogstad is a lawyer who works for Torvald in the bank and also an old schoolmate. His character is full of contradictions because as a lawyer one takes an oath to be of high turpitude and Krogstad has compromised that when he hangs compromising information that he knows about her fraudulent transactions over her head. 3. Internal conflict includes a search for identity in which it especially pertains to woman in nineteenth-century Europe. Evidence of this found in the way Torvald speaks to Nora. Another is deception how Nora lies about minor incidents like how she continuously eats macaroons even when Torvald tells her not to do so. External conflict includes fraud towards the end of Act I reader's find out that Nora forged her father's signature because she needed to get money to treat her father's illness. Another major conflict is Nora's ongoing struggle to combat her husband's oppressive attitude towards her. 4. Dramatic irony is present at the beginning of the play when Nora expresses joy that because of Torvald's new job they no longer need to worry about their future but it's ironic because Nora knows that they are not
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A developing motif is how Nora defines freedom because her domestic duties that Torvald expects her to perform as well as her financial ones hold her back because she has to pay back the loan that she took out using her father's signature this quote exemplifies this position "Free. To be free, absolutely free. To spend time playing with the children. To have a clean, beautiful house, the way Torvald likes it." One symbol that stood out- the Christmas tree a representation of festivities and holiday decoration, this description of the purposes of the Christmas tree can be extended to Nora because in the eyes of her husband; Nora adds a decorative presence to the

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