Gender Dynamics in the play A Doll House

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English 102
4/12/2015
Gender Dynamics in the Play A Doll House
The title of this play already offers a clue to its theme. The term doll has a deeper meaning than the doll used by children to play. This term is tied to Nora who is cuddled, pampered and patronized just as a kid would to a doll that has no say. The play portrays and distinguishes things that do matter and distinguishes them from superficial things. The play downplays the significance of appearances and perceptions to people. It is a play that shows things are not always as rosy as they are and one has to dig deep to get the real picture of things.
From this play there are multiple themes one can decipher. The sacrificial role of women comes in first. Nora in act three knows this and tells Torvald that even though men refuse to sacrifice their integrity, “hundreds of thousands of women have.” Mrs.Linde had abandoned Krogstad whom she truly loved to take care of her mother and two brothers. Krogstad was not well off and she needed a richer man to be able to care for them. The nanny had to work for Nora and abandon her child to support herself. She tells Nora that “she was a poor girl who’d been led astray” and was lucky to have found the job. Nora has had to leave like a doll as society dictates so. Torvald is supposed to be the dominant partner and Nora is content with that position though that is not who she is. Nora must hide the loan she took up for him to go to It…