Brenda WongMrs. BowdenIB English HL March 19, 2014Freeing yourself from the enclosure called marriage: a loveless marriageA doll may look like a beautiful figure, but in a dollhouse, the beauty is locked inside the house, making the beautiful useless doll. In the doll's house, the doll does not realize its potential for which it was created, it is only a household decoration. In Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House, Nora is the doll and her marriage is trapped in the doll's house. As a person, Nora is seen as a beautiful creature who entertains her husband with the beautiful images of a docile wife. However, she is not who she appears to represent. There is a dark secret inside her. She is a desperate creature who longs to explore the outer aspects of her marriage outside of the dollhouse. In a male-dominated society, expectations Nora must manage, she must choose between obligations determined by her role as a wife versus obligations of self, focusing on her true identity. Guessing the context of her love, she commits a forgery, and through the trials and deception she goes through, she realizes that her marriage is nothing more than an illusion, and that she is only nothing more than a doll in Torvald's house. being seen as hiding from each other and trying to seek the truth in each other. The game of hide and seek can be seen between Nora and her children, as well as between Nora and her husband. She hides her true personality and her actions from him. On the other hand, Torvald also hides his life from Nora. Torvald keeps all the affairs of their relationship intact from Nora. Although Nora hides the secret in the middle of paper......more money to Nora to make her feel happy again, rather than discussing their financial situation and trying to work things out. He hides his affairs from Nora, just as she hides from him. Nora is aware that she and her husband are hiding things from each other. Even though she is indeed hiding from him, she is also seeking the truth. She plays the game on both sides. She hides, she searches. She is trying to learn more about life. Can there be a life where she doesn't have to hide from the one she should be closest to? Nora wants to be able to stop hiding, to stop lying. To achieve this, Nora must be treated as an equal. Being treated as an equal is something Torvald would never do for her. He would not “sacrifice his honor for the one he loves” (Ibsen 58). Nora realizes that “[Torvald was] not the man [she] thought [of him]” (Ibsen 57).