en she is crossed, and can be cajoled back into good humor by a kiss (201). Nora fits right along with Helmer for she, as well as he, has fit themselves perfectly into what society wants.Ibsen wrote the characters of Helmer and Nora for a very particular reason. He made them the perfect models of a man and a young wife to point out a flaw that people could recognize. Ibsen points this flaw out to try to encourage thought and perhaps help people move in a direction of curing the problem (Boyesen 216). Ibsen does not offer the audience any solution to the problem. He demands of his audience that they think through the issue he has presented before them and to discover their own views of them. While he does hide his own views in the play itself, he does not force them upon the audience. Ibsens office, as he has himself said, is to ask questions (and, as a rule, terribly hard ones), but he does not take it upon himself to answer them (Boyesen 200). Though he wont answer the questions in any of his plays, he does not hesitate to present the same problem and theme again in a different form. In fact, Ibsen often wrote about an individual fighting against the expectations of society to try to be true to themselves (Meyer 1567). He often presented this theme by switching around the roles so as to differ from the established expectations and roles of men and women. (Williams 174) This is seen in A Dolls House by the fact that at the conclusion of the show, Nora walks out of the apartment as the strong hero, while Helmer is left standing there weak and destroyed. Ibsen did not write A Dolls House to please the women theatre goers, yet though disliked due to his writing of the character of Nora, he presents a clear lesson for women in inner strength (Boyesen 206). When Nora decides to go against all that society expects of her, and live for herself and what she feels is right, she is Ibsens daughter. She corrected the problem by st...
