The rebellion of Nora and Mrs. Linde in A Doll's HouseAn underlying theme in Ibsen's play, A Doll's House is Nora's rebellion and Mrs. Linde against the company. Over the course of the show, Nora and Mrs. Linde have both experienced an evolution from passive victims in a life pre-programmed for them by society to active agents in an uncertain and insecure life. In an attempt to save her husband's life, Nora has committed a forgery and Krogstad is ready to use this information to achieve his goals: ''(...) if I produce this document in court, you will be condemned'' (Ibsen 791). This element gives us an idea of the condition of women in a society deeply rooted in male thought. Furthermore, Doctor Rank, suffering from a fatal disease, confesses his love for her: ''Now you know that I am at your service, body and soul'' (Ibsen 802). All these events make the circle around Nora tighten and turn faster and faster, and she can hardly resist this pressure and seeks relief by wildly dancing the tarantella, a dance that she transforms into a dance of "life and death". be seen as one of the key elements that allows us to say that she is moving from a state of passive victim to an early state of active agent: ''Nora dances more and more wildly. Helmer stands next to the stove giving her repeated directions as she dances; he doesn't seem to hear them. ''(Ibsen 808). All the reactions, words and attitudes of the other characters form the chain that unbearably surrounds Nora and which she will finally break, freeing herself from the lie in which she has lived for many years - she firmly declares her decision to Helmer: ''I can't stay more here with you (...). I'll leave here at once'' (Ibsen 821). Added to this intimate interindependence between Nora and the four other important characters, considered as a whole, is the complexity of Helmer's wife as a dramatic character. Compared to the others, Nora is the most 'rounded' character, the one we see evolve, unlike Helmer or Dr. Rank. More precisely, we discover two forms of evolution of this character: 1. an 'external' one, produced in the reader's mind, when he discovers the purpose for which she always asks her husband for money and has a 'toy attitude' with him ;
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