How Nora was a victim and victimizer in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

It is easy to forget how far our society has come in the last hundred years in recognizing the equality of all people. Often when we take a look into the past what we see is very shocking. Such is the case in a Doll House by Henrik Ibsen. Here we see Nora presented as a victim of her father and male dominated society; however she also plays the role of victimizer against her husband, …

…she thinks she loves and in doing so sees how she has become a victim of her own ignorance which has been brought upon her by the men in her life. Works Cited Hunker, James. Iconoclast a Book of Dramatist. New York: Charles Schribner's Sons, 1925 Ibsen, Henrik. A Dolls House. Drama. Ed. Robert DiYanni. Burr Ridge IL: McGraw- Hill, 2000. 331-379 Weigand, Herman J. The Modern Ibsen a Reconsideration. Freeport, NY: Books For Libraries Press, Year.