Ibsen's+Satire

**__Satire Seen in A Doll House__**
Througout Ibsen's playwright, A Doll House, he incoporates social satire into his characters and his plot. Ibsen's main characters, Torvald and Nora, both fit into the stereotypical gender roles of marriage. Torvald talks to Nora as if she is pet, or as a doll. Nora and Torvald never fight and never have any type of a serious talk. Ibsen is using Nora and Torvald's relationship to make fun of the "perfect marriage". As most people know, no marriage is perfect. Couples must work at their marriage every day, because there are constant struggles, ups, and downs. However, in the Helmer's marriage, there isn't any struggles until Nora finally walks out on her family. Nora walking out on her family is Ibsen's way of showing his disprovement of the typical female role as he uses Nora to show that women must stay true to themselves and keep their conception of honor and resposibility alive.

Nora is a mother to small children. She dotes on and cars greatly for her children, but staying true to the role satire plays in the play, Nora is just not fit for motherhood and was only a mother, because that is what was expected in the time.