A doll house
... spend on certain purchases. He doesn't know, and he doesn't want to know that Nora, herself, can earn some money. Instead, he expects her always be dependent on his salary. It is a shame that Nora was able to realize only after eight years that she lives with a hypocrite. After he discovered that Nora forged her father's signature on the loan bond, he nullifies their marriage. He doesn't care that Nora did this because she loves him very much, and she did this to save his life. He is the man of “honor,” “Nora, I would gladly work for your sake. But no man can be expected to sacrifice his honor, even for the person he loves.” And she answers him, “Millions of women have done it” (Ibsen). When a woman loves as Nora does, nothing else matters. She will sacrifice herself for the family. Her purpose in life is to be happy for her husband and children; to dance and to play. Torvald doesn't know what real relationship means is. And when he sees that because of Nora he needs to sacrifice his reputation and his career, he gave up. He wouldn't take the blame for her. Only when he finds out that Nora won't be charged, he forgives her, and tries to keep her. But it is not going to help him because Nora realized that Torvald doesn't love her. He only thinks about himself. Once Nora recognized the truth about her marriage, she understood that she can no longer stay in the “strange man's house” (Ibsen). Is there anything more humiliating to a woman than to live with a stranger, and have children with him? The lie of the marriage institution decrees that she shall continue to do so, and the social conception of duty insists that for the sake of that lie she need be nothing else than a plaything, a doll, an unknown. “... 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” (Ibsen). Nora realizes how much she has been wronged, that she is only a doll for Helmer. She also says to him, “You have never loved me. You only thought it amusing to be in love with me.” She decided that ...