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How Does Nora Change At The End Of The Play

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expect their women to act. Through Nora you can see how a man in this period would have seen his wife. Nora shows how the male dominated culture in this era made wives dependent on their husbands and how they saw their wives as possessions. Nora shows her place or gender role when she flirts with her husband to get what she wants. Even though she is only pretending in order to fit into Torvald’s facade, it seems to meet Torvald’s expectations of her. Nora minds her husband as a child would a father and in return, Torvald treats her as a child or his “doll”. At the end of the play Nora makes a change in the way she acts and how Torvald really feels about her. Nora leaves her husband due to the history and culture of what a woman’s

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