Nora+Virtuous+or+Corrupt

=﻿**__First Impressions__**= At the beginning of the play, [|Nora] is depicted to be very whimsical and child-like. However this is proved to be only one side to her as her conversation with Krogstad shows how deceptive she can be.

__Virtuous__
On one hand, Nora had said she had forged the note for a good cause: saving her husband. Also when she leaves him to pursue the world, it proves how independent of a woman she is (this was before the [|Women's Rights Movement]).

__﻿Corrupt__
On the other hand, at the end of the play, all of this saving and forgery was just to get her to see how far her husband would go to protect her. Yes, this would prove if they had a truly happy marriage, but these are twisted means by proving it. Almost a repeat of what was originally thought to be the main conflict of the play, forging a note for a good cause, and again, that very same forging plus all of the heartbreak, for proof of a good marriage.

**__Evaluation__**
At this point, the reader would be asking, "Well, is there a point at which all of this moral stuff conflicting with the law crosses the line when it steps into relationship boundries?" Well yes, playing with someone's emotions isn't a very nice thing to do, since all Nora did basically for eight years was pretend to be happy in her marriage, but if she was dissatisfied with her marriage, shouldn't she have the right to divorce? Now comes in a distinction of which is greater, setting boundries or women's rights.

==﻿__Ibsen's Intention__== [|Ibsen's] plays were meant to be more realistic than most melodramas (he in fact invented [|modern drama]). In their realism he expressed his views on social standards, one of which being the unfair treatment of women. So Ibsen's original intention was to make Nora a self-reliant woman capable of her own decisions.