ttern of dialogue which combines the ease of daily speech with the urgency of the drama. In A Doll's House, Ibsen challenges the assumptions about the place of women in society and finds that the confinement of women has produced a situation under which men also cannot be truly free, though they may not realize it. Nora is a woman who has an understanding that extends beyond the limited education she has been allowed to have by her father and husband. Her childish innocence turns to resolve by the end of the play. The play represents the state of relations between men and women in the nineteenth century, with the males clearly in a dominant position and the women serving as adjuncts to their fathers and husbands. The play suggests that the prevailing situation can be changed, and at the end of the play Nora stands as an example to other women. She may be a victim of her society, but she is a victim who now kn
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