Becoming Independent Throughout A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen illustrates through an intriguing story how a once infantile-like woman gains independence and a life of her own. Ibsen creates a naturalistic drama that demonstrates how on the outside Nora and Torvald seam to have it all, but in reality their life together is empty. Instead of meaningful discussions, Torvald uses degrading pet names and meaningless talk to relate to Nora. Continuing to treat Nora like …showed first 75 words of 860 total…

…showed last 75 words of 860 total…before they could give themselves over to another person. Because they had not done this, Nora knew that she had “been living together with a strange man and had borne him three children” (70). Marriage is when two people become one, and if those two do not have any identity to bring to that marriage, then they do not successfully unite to make one. Bibliography Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992.