Nora+the+Victim

= = = Nora the Victim =

= =  When reading 'A Doll's House' you may feel as if Nora was being a coward, running away from her problems. Looking back on this play, you may notice that Nora is more of a victim than a coward. She is slightly victimized by her adoring husband who thinks she is incompetent to do any job. Truth be told, Nora is a women being victimized by a masculine society. The best example given in the book is shown by Nora's decision to [|forge her father's signature]in order to obtain a loan to take Torvald, her husband, to Italy. This loan was necessary to save Torvald's life. Because she was a woman and could not get a loan by herself, she found it necessary to comit the crime of forgery. Nora was not the only [|women] to have to break the laws to get by.