![]() The manner in which Nora goes about her work, trying to arrange her world in order to please her husband indicates the fact that she has internalized the logic of the ‘lack’ that she id fed as a part of the patriarchal society that she belongs to. There are points in the play where the action of the characters and the words they utter can be made subject to a psychoanalytical reading. ![]() When Torvald berates her for having put his reputation at stake while trying to ensure the sustenance of the family while he was ill, oblivious to the fact that the comfortable position that he enjoyed in life at that point of time was entirely due to the efforts of Nora, who had been faithful to him to the extent of desiring death rather than any loss of Torvald’s reputation. ![]() 1A Psychoanalytical Reading of Henrik Ibsen’sA Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen’s controversial play, A Doll’s House is based on the life of Nora, a woman who realizes that her husband and her marriage were stifling the person that she was, after having sacrificed a major part of her life for him. ![]()
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