Character Analysis: The Psychology Of Ibsen's 'Nora'

Nikunj Gupta Written assignment

The Psychology of Nora
In Nora, Ibsen creates a woman who cannot be defined in simple terms. He chooses a character like Nora to describe a woman 's psychology who desires independence and freedom of making choices. Nora 's psychological makeup is a result of an emotionally depriving and possibly abusive father and also due to absence of a mother. She always pretends to be a child by deceiving Torvald that she is his doll as that 's the only way she got attention and even she was never taught any other way. However, by Scrutinizing into her relationships with her husband Torvald and as well as other people in her life such as her father, moreover the audience get to know that she has two options remaining either she could enshrine her emotional misgivings and carry on her life pretending as a child or get free from everyone and save herself mentally as well as emotionally. Furthermore probably the most important feature in discussing Nora 's psychology is the revelations she made regarding her father. He called her a doll child and treated her like a doll. This type of despotic relationship raises questions about the role of her mother. It is obvious that the nurse, who brought her up, was pliant and submissive; she was the only maternal figure for Nora hence she never learns to assert herself openly. Frequently when one parent is quite dominating, the other tries to encourage some balance within the child but there is no prefiguration in