Feminine sphere

• Nora gives her children gender based gifts such as a "Doll and a cradle for Emmy"
• Nora realises her marriage "has been nothing but a playroom" and leaves, reflecting the feminist rebellion against the patriarchal ideology
• Nora leaves to leave her husband and children as she recognises she has "duties to herself" that are higher than a mother and a wife, by leaving she is rebelling against traditional gender roles
• Mrs Linde and Nora have a sisterhood and although they are very different people, Mrs Linde still supports Nora and when Nora leaves at the end she is welcome to go and stay at Mrs Linde's house until she can work things out
• Nora realises her marriage "has been nothing but a playroom"
• At the beginning of a dolls house women are stereotypically presented as irrational and naïve as helmer asks her about eating macaroons, he seems to see his wife as inferior
• Women have to hide their secrets to enable their husbands to feel masculine, helmer tells Nora off for borrowing money as she seems careless and "like a woman" that's too foolish to carry any responsibility. However she reveals to Mrs Linde that she is using the money to pay off a debt she created while saving Helmer's life
• "A wife can't borrow money without her husbands consent"
• "When I'm no longer pretty... when torvald no longer loves me"
• Women were seen as aesthetically pleasing and were trophy wives for their husbands to show off whereas the men were seen as the breadwinners
• "Nearly all young criminals are the children of mothers who are constitutional liars"
• "pampered little pretty"
• "correct me, lead me, the way you always do" tarantella
• "Your just being hysterical"
• Helmer accuses nora of hysteria because she was unsuited for the role of women in society
• A03: in the 19th century hysteria was a diagnosable illness in women and allowed men to gain more control over the women's lives
• "Beauty that's mine, mine alone, all mine"
• "I am condemned to humiliation and ruin simply for the weakness of women"
• "doll wife"
• "I would not be a true man if your feminine helplessness did not make you doubly attractive"