The world famous play, A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, is centered upon the injustices women faced in society, and more specifically within their marriages during the nineteenth century. To portray that era, Ibsen’s play, focuses on the subordinate role that, Nora Helmer, the main character, plays compared to that of her husband. Nora, like all wives of the time, lived a life revolving around her husbands. His views, beliefs, and rules, were automatically hers with no argument or second-guessing. From a young age she embraced this role in society. However, as the play progresses and the story evolves, so does she. Over the course of a holiday weekend, and the three acts in the play, Nora’s character goes from being a doll child and doll wife, to a strong, independent woman. Nora acts childishly in the first act, contemplates intensely in the second, and achieves a priceless sense of reality during the finale act of the play. In Act one, “Nora tries hard to comply with the social rules to act as a good wife, mother and daughter” (Wong). However, in the meantime, Nora shows her underlying desire to be an individual, and more importantly her childlike characteristics, threw acts of defiance and carelessness. Torvald, Nora’s husband, imposes rules for which she is to follow. Instead of being an adult and addressing her concerns about thus rules, she simply breaks them behind his back, as a child is accustomed to doing. For instance, Nora is forbidden to eat macaroons, but does so any way. When this occurs, Torvald asks her is she has, “been nibbling sweets,” to which she replies wholeheartedly, “No, certainly not/ I should not think of going against your wishes” (Ibsen). This eating of a macaroon portrays her childlike qualities in two separate ways. For one, she surrendered to Torvald by allowing such a thing become a rule in the first place, ultimately showing her lack of influence or desire to stand up for her beliefs. Secondly, she did not admit to her act of defiance when she was accused. As an adult, she should have owned up to her actions as well as not been ashamed of them. However, like a child, she does neither of these. Instead, her childish characteristics led her to take what she believes to be the easier and correct path, a path of deceit. This is only a single instance that, “Nora exhibits many childish qualities” (Bradford). This defiance, while childlike, is Nora’s subconscious attempt to remain an individual in a world where women are conformed to be less than equal. Throughout the first act, the audience witnesses Nora’s enormous lack of financial responsibility, due to the primary fact that she does not acknowledge the need for one. Naively, she appears to view money as if it grows on trees, consistently coaxing her husband for more and more. However, due to her previously and current circumstan