'Traditional Values in A Doll\'s House'

'In A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen uses symbolization as he portrays i of the main characters, Torvald, as a spokesman for square-toed values. From the beginning of influence I, Ibsen characterizes Torvald as patronizing, authoritative, and a conformist. Through Torvalds nicknames for Nora, Ibsen conveys the prim ideology that manpower are top- nonch to women. Torvalds pride and softness to see Nora as an equal capture much discontented within Noras life, as her unhappiness and captivity serve as symbols of the effect of men on women during the straitlaced era.\nWhile it is observable that Torvald practices dominance e precisewhere Nora, Torvalds condescending mindset was not foreign for men during that time. Torvald asserts ascendency over Nora verbally, a method very commonplace for the twee era. In a non-chalant manner, Torvald refers to Nora as a sky-lark chirruping (Ibsen 1681), a squirrel lark about (Ibsen 1681), a pocket-sized sweet-tooth (Ibsen 1683), and a li ttle debauched (Ibsen 1682). Rarely does Torvald shout Nora by her authorized name, perhaps because she is not even honourable of such in his eyes. By natural endowment her nicknames, Torvald ensures that Nora will believe that she is exactly what he tells her to be. As the husband, the dominating male figure, it is Torvalds tariff according to straight-laced values to be the supreme draw within a marriage, and thus manage Nora as secondary. Nora and Torvald channelize only on the most di allowtante level; he speaks from the conventions of society and neither sees nor hears her... (Henry). though Torvald respects his wife on a certain level, at that place is an understanding in that society that the womans reckon is certainly not the last or only. Nice of you--because you let your husband claim his way? tout ensemble right, you little rogue, I know you didnt think it that way... (Ibsen 1705). It is assumed the husbands t genius is the only one of value and that the opinions of women widen very little value weight. ... '