Self-Discovery In A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen

Leaving home for the first time is an enriching and slightly alienating experience that happens to everyone at different points of their life. Whether it be leaving for college or just moving out. Most of the time it’s a big deal, but for some it means more, it means a new period in life has opened up-a chance for self-discovery is now on the horizon. This reigns true in the play, A Doll’s House, written by Henrik Ibsen, where a young housewife tries to free herself through a self-imposed exile. With this exile, self-discovery can be found, but before that Nora, the young housewife, must reveal hidden truths to her husband, Torvald, in order for this exile to take place. Along the way, other characters experience exile as well. Ms. Linde, Krogstad,

To start, Nora marries a man who didn 't have much to start with, then gets the opportunity to gain more this contrasts with Linde’s wealthy husband that later died, leaving her with nothing. Nora also had 3 had children while Linde did not, but she had three family members that depended on her to provided for them. Towards the end of the play, Nora leaves her family while Linde gains a new family, all of which makes it so that both contradicts to each other. Ibsen makes this so in order to show two sides of the women within the society, those being the one that depends on men and the one that is independent to men. He also makes another comment about the social construct by switching the roles between Nora and Linde. At first, Nora had the housewife role and Linde played the strong independent women, but now the roles had switched. By showing how Nora switched from a dependent to an independent woman tells the reader women are strong enough to remove themself from a situation that is less than desirable. As well, Linde becoming a housewife shows that a strong woman can also have a nice home and