1. A Doll's House's female characters' need for security
She yearns to earn her own keep, to work like a man', taking up copying work that she hides from her husband, deriving a guilty pleasure from defying some of the social expectations of females, which dictate that the husband is the master of the household, as well as the sole breadwinner. ... Through Torvald's shallow' ideals of women working and unappeasable pride, which are repellent to the audience, he criticises the social ideal of the economically dominant male of that era. ... Through Nora's epiphany and intellectual liberation, Ibsen represents the long-ignored ...
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