1. Victorian Women and A Doll's House
He calls her names and puts her down whenever she begins to voice her opinion. This can be seen when Nora's forgery is brought up in their final confrontation when he calls her disrespectful words like "featherbrained woman," "incompetent child," and "blind' (Ibsen, 810). ... Moi states, "the doll becomes a wild woman, with the loose hair of a fallen womanThis suggests that Nora has appropriated her own body, which was trained to be a pretty doll for her husband to delight in, to display the torment of her soul" (Moi). ... Torvald displays dominance...
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