Question

How does Ibsen present Dr Rank with regard to Nora in A Doll's House?
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Answer 1

Answer:

In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Nora Helmer spends most of her on-stage time as a doll: a vapid, passive character with little personality of her own. Her whole life is a construct of societal norms and the expectations of others. ... Until her change, Nora is very childlike and whimsical.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

When Nora comes to the realization that her character was little more than a composite of societal and others’ expectations, she recognizes that the strong, staunch, principled Torvald she thought she was married to was only a character formed out of her own expectations. Their marriage was a doll marriage: he a doll husband, she a "doll wife”, and their children destined to be “doll children”.