After reading “A Doll’s House” by Hendrik Ibsen. I can conclude that there is both a parallel and a contrast structure in the characters of Mrs. Linde and Nora. A contrasting difference in the characters, are shown not in the characters themselves, but the role that they play in their marriages. These women have different relationships with their husbands. Torvald and Nora have a relationship where there is no equality. To Torvald Nora is …showed first 75 words of 548 total…

…showed last 75 words of 548 total…about the world and that if she is to learn, then she will have to experience that for herself. This remark tells us that Nora is capable of choosing herself over her husband. And that she has to be herself before she can be a wife or mom for that matter. Notes Hendrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House. Lee A. Jacobus, Ed. The Compact Benford Introduction to Drama 2nd ed. Boston: St. Martin’s Press, 1996) 86.