In "A Doll's House", Nora is Torvald Helmer's little "skylark" (368) who seems to be dominated by him in every single way: mentally, physically, and financially. Torvald treats Nora as if she were a child or some other creature that is incapable of thinking. She lives a sheltered life in which there is no need of worrying about problems like the ones that Ms. Linde has encountered. Torvald simply tells her what do and how to …showed first 75 words of 1161 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1161 total…leave the house or check the mail. Nora can't even dance the way she likes. Due to Torvald's dominance over Nora, she has very little say-so to what she does in her everyday life. Works Cited Chavez, Albert K. "A Doll's House (Theatrical Production)" Literary Cavalcade 55.1 (2002): 28. Ibsen, Henrik. "A Doll's House." 1879. Literature and Ourselves. Eds. Gloria Henderson, Bill Day, and Sandra Waller. 4th ed. New York: Longman, 2003. 367-423. Rosefeldt, Paul. "Ibsen's A Doll's House" Explicator 61.2 (2003): 84.