A Doll's House Gender Roles

Words: 805
Pages: 4

How are the roles of Mrs. Linde and Anne Marie key in the education of Nora in “ A Dolls House’?

How are the roles of Mrs. Linde and Anne Marie key in the education of Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s “ A Dolls House”. In the play the main character Nora is not the smartest when it come to ways of knowing of the world. She is shown in many lights of how she is in the dark about many aspects of her own daily life.

In A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen talks about the ways that women are viewed and respected by the men of the time. The novel is based around a woman named Nora who is the wife of a banker with a highly toted reputation. Nora is said to be a very pretty woman who was never very smart but could get by easily by way of her
…show more content…
This got her the wealthy husband she has now. She grew up in a male dominant house hold because of the large hold that her father had on her this is the reason that she was the way that she was when she married Torvald. She was just a simple housewife who mothered children but didn't truly look after them like a mother. They as many rich families did then as they do now. Her role in the house is to be a stand alone wife and to tend to every need of Torvald because he is a hard working man who because of his effort to bring home money to the family needs to be catered to all the time.

Mrs. Linde in the play a dolls house is a childhood friend of Nora’s and has seen her grow up from her residence in Nora's fathers house. She is a woman that has fallen in a similar situation to the other women being Nora and Annemarie, she has been put in a tight financial