Doll's House Nora Quealey

Both Nora's in these stories go against the social perceptions of what women do or are in male oriented societies. Nora in A Doll's House shuns her family and home by striking out into the night, an effort to find fulfillment she could not experience in her stifling doll's-like existence. Nora Quealey, on the other hand, goes out into the world to work in a male-dominated profession and finds she longs to go back home to the role of mother and housewife where she was happy.

In A Doll's House, Ibsen provides us with the portrait of a Victorian-era housewife, one who is much more like a possession to her husband and father than a human being in her own right. In the society in which Nora lived, a woman could not be herself. Victorian society was an exclusively male society wi

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