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Introduction
The female characters in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House give up their comfort for others' sake. Nora Helmer puts her reputation on the line for her husband's sake. Indeed, it is true that women are portrayed as loving and self-sacrificing. Mrs. Linde married a man she did not love but who had money because she needed to take care of her ailing mother and take care of her brothers.
Illustrations
Mrs. Linde gives up on the man she loved, Krogstad, for the sake of her family. She has to put up with a loveless marriage for her mother and brothers, when her husband dies, she finds no reason to mourn. It is clear she has sacrificed her life for other people's sake,
Nora secretly takes a loan so that her husband who is ill can take a trip to Italy (according to the doctor's prescription) to get well, she has to take up extra work copying documents to pay off the loan.
Nora forges her father's signature. For her to obtain a loan from Krogstad, one of the conditions is that she has a surety. She can only get her father to sign the surety; however, her father is very ill. Giving him the details of her husband's illness would only worry him further, and so Nora chooses not to tell him of her predicament. This act of love leads her to forging her father's signature which is a crime. She lives with the secret for a long time, but again is willing to pay the price for the sake of her family.
She sacrifices some of the money she gets to give the children what they need and for Torvald.
She struggles to keep a secret from Torvalds so that he is not upset yet that she took a loan for a trip that was to help him get better.
Nora buys presents for everyone in the house including the maid because she loves them. She wraps the gifts with beautiful gilt paper. She decorates a Christmas tree to make everyone happy.
Anne, Nora's nurse, sacrifices her comfort in order to take care of Nora, and later Nora's children. Anne leaves her own daughter behind and moves in with Nora's family, to become Nora's nurse. Nora had no mother, and Anne filled in this gap with lots of love. Even Nora wonders how Anne had the heart to give up raising her own child in order to work, but it is clear that Anne had to make this sacrifice in order to fend for her own family. She gladly takes care of Nora's children too, and contents herself with letters from her daughter on important occasions, such as her wedding.
Conclusion
It is clear that women in the play are loving and make sacrifices to take care of those that they love. Their actions show their immense sacrifice as they forego personal happiness to make the lives of others better.
marto answered the question on August 27, 2019 at 06:59
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