stop treating her like his doll or his “little lark.” When Torvald chose his honor over his love for her, that was the last straw. As Ibsen uses animal imagery, once again, to define Nora as a dove caught in a hawk’s claw, the reader realizes the irony. Nora is no longer trapped. Nora the lark is now able to spread her wings to fly. Ibsen’s animal imagery proves to be a powerful means to show the character of Nora as the lark, squirrel, dove and finally, ironically, the hawk. Works CitedGuralnik, David, ed. Webster’s New World Dictionary. New York: Simon and Shuster, 1987. 340.Wilkie, Brian, and James Hurt. Literature of the Western World: Volume II. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1997. 1134-86....
