Doll House

            
            
             In Henrik Ibsen's a Doll's House, Ibsen's portraits the sacrifices needed to be a woman in .
             all economic classes during the late 1870's. He uses three woman form different economic status .
             to demonstrate the consent duty of a woman. Nora the protagonist, is the main example since a .
             child she was treated like "a doll," never exposed to the ugly because that was the man's affairs. .
             Completely seen as being in incompetent at the beginning of the play, merely surviving on being .
             dependent of her husband Torvald. Her job is to raise the children and have the house "happy and .
             welcoming," as Torvald claims. Nora not only sacrifices her feelings and opinions but her dignity .
             so her husband can feel that he is a real man, because he holds the dominant role. Nora also had .
             to sacrifice her father to care for her sick husband which leaves her position vulnerable and is .
             blackmailed by Krogstad. Mrs. Linde, Nora's childhood friend, has a different situation as oppose .
             to Nora, Mrs. Linde abandoned her true love Krogstad and married a richer man in order to support .
             her mother and two brothers. Completely leaving astray her feelings she did what was expected of .
             her and disregarded her true yearning. Finally Annie Marie, Nora's nanny scarifies her own child .
             to work as the caretaker of Nora's children, she shares the same sacrificing of happiness due to .
             economic problems like Mrs. Linde. These woman are merely workers of man, they obey and .
             completely gave their identity to man, moreover society, to be a woman. They are man's .
             playthings that are treated like children who do not know any better, because they lack the .
             opportunities and privileges given to man. At a early age woman are psychologically conditioned .
             to be obedient and bubbly and only see the world as a proper beautiful place and if its not that in .
             fact it is the job of the woman to make it beautiful. A great symbol in the play is the glorious festive .