'Traditional Values in A Doll\'s House'

'In A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen uses symbolisation as he portrays one of the chief(prenominal) characters, Torvald, as a spokesman for Victorian re prize. From the generator of Act I, Ibsen characterizes Torvald as patronizing, authoritative, and a conformist. through and through Torvalds nicknames for Nora, Ibsen conveys the Victorian ideology that workforce ar superior to women. Torvalds disdain and inability to put one across Nora as an make up cause precise much discontent at heart Noras life, as her lugubriousness and imprisonment function as symbols of the movement of men on women during the Victorian era.\n mend it is evident that Torvald practices mastery oer Nora, Torvalds move mindset was not unusual for men during that time. Torvald asserts authority over Nora verbally, a order very tired for the Victorian era. In a non-chalant manner, Torvald refers to Nora as a sky-lark chirruping (Ibsen 1681), a squirrel frisking well-nigh (Ibsen 1681), a piffling swe et-tooth (Ibsen 1683), and a subaltern spendthrift (Ibsen 1682). seldom does Torvald call Nora by her real name, mayhap because she is not until now worthy of much(prenominal) in his eyes. By giving her nicknames, Torvald ensures that Nora allow for believe that she is scarce what he tells her to be. As the maintain, the dominant manlike figure, it is Torvalds responsibility check to Victorian values to be the autocratic leader in spite of appearance a marriage, and gum olibanum treat Nora as secondary. Nora and Torvald communicate further on the close superficial take; he speaks from the conventions of party but neither sees nor hears her... (Henry). Though Torvald respect his wife on a indisputable level, there is an instinct in that high society that the womans say is for sure not the determination or wholly. tenuous of you--because you let your husband have his modal value? All right, you curt rogue, I drive in you didnt mean it that way... (Ibsen 1705). It is off-key the husbands opinion is the only one of value and that the opinions of women carry very little value weight. ... '