The more relatable the setting to an average reader, the more they can empathize with the main character and recognize the message. It is because Nora’s house is so inviting and mundane that the reader projects their own image of a comfortable abode onto the scenery, allowing the jarring reality of Nora’s social status to click with the reader. All in all, A Doll’s House employs characterization, symbolism, and setting to suggest the true inconvenience of femininity. It exploits how sex decrees superiority and inferiority in a typical masquerading family. Ibsen cleaves the societal norms of motherhood and womanhood when he writes Nora abandoning her family and role of being the prop for the
The more relatable the setting to an average reader, the more they can empathize with the main character and recognize the message. It is because Nora’s house is so inviting and mundane that the reader projects their own image of a comfortable abode onto the scenery, allowing the jarring reality of Nora’s social status to click with the reader. All in all, A Doll’s House employs characterization, symbolism, and setting to suggest the true inconvenience of femininity. It exploits how sex decrees superiority and inferiority in a typical masquerading family. Ibsen cleaves the societal norms of motherhood and womanhood when he writes Nora abandoning her family and role of being the prop for the