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Although I really enjoyed reading A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, I also found this play to be very frustrating. Although Nora's relationship with her husband was to be expected during the time it was written, it annoyed me anyway. Throughout ....

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... a good faç ade. When Nora learns this, she tells her husband, "You've never loved me, you've only found it pleasant to be in love with me." I a lso think that Nora perfectly describes what her marriage actually is toward the end of the play, when she tells Torvald, "…our home has been nothing but a play- room. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's doll- child. And the children have been my dolls in their turn. I liked it when you came and played with me, just as they liked it when I came and played with them. That's what our marriage has been Torvald." I think that it is at this point that Nora's world transf ...