Yes. Their marriage was just a game, like a bunch of kids playing “house”. All the nicknames he gave her “my little squirrel” “sky lark” “feather head” indicate that Torvald thought of Nora as a child, not as a wife. As Nora herself said, she had never really been happy, and they never really loved each other. She was right to leave. Although in the day and age that the play was written, it was beyond inconceivable that a mother would ever leave her children for any reason. From what I’ve heard, it caused quite a ruckus when it came out. Actresses who played the part of Nora couldn’t bear to act out the last scene. I think I read somewhere that the ending was tweaked sometimes.
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Lady Lynx
26|Dec|2009 1Yes. Their marriage was just a game, like a bunch of kids playing “house”. All the nicknames he gave her “my little squirrel” “sky lark” “feather head” indicate that Torvald thought of Nora as a child, not as a wife. As Nora herself said, she had never really been happy, and they never really loved each other. She was right to leave. Although in the day and age that the play was written, it was beyond inconceivable that a mother would ever leave her children for any reason. From what I’ve heard, it caused quite a ruckus when it came out. Actresses who played the part of Nora couldn’t bear to act out the last scene. I think I read somewhere that the ending was tweaked sometimes.
Amethyst
26|Dec|2009 2Yes, because a marriage requires some degree of equality. He treated her like his pet.
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