Question Being Answered: In what ways do you find Nora a victim? In what ways at fault? Nora Helmer, the wife of Torvald Helmer and mother of 3 children, is a very complex and brave woman for her time. She plays the main role in the play and is essential to its plot. She is both a victim of her circumstances and also at fault for actions which she committed. Nora is a victim. Throughout her …showed first 75 words of 523 total…

…showed last 75 words of 523 total…were good or bad and that she will be held accountable by the law regardless of what she feels is right. This play has many themes which add to Nora’s character and position such as conflicting values and principles, the gender issue which is the expected male behavior and the expected female behavior, and how the female role is unsatisfying, restricting and false. Are these themes still concerns for women in the present day?