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How Is the Lottery a Commentry About Nature of Conformity?

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how is the lottery a commentry about nature of conformity?

The dollhouse shows how in the 19th century the men dominated their women and treated them much like puppets. Like dolls they were paraded for their beauty. The story shows Nora transforming from a doll to a women. Both the play and the movie were enjoyable.

Ibsen shows Torvald dominance in many ways. He restricted Nora from many things. Torvald admired his wife for her beauty and treated her much like a doll. Torvald didn't like for Nora to eat macaroons he thought they would rot her teeth so she had to sneak and eat them when he wasn't around. When Krogstead put the letter in the mailbox Nora tried to get it out with her hair pin because Torvald had the key but he caught her. These symbols show Torvalds authority as the man of the house Nora had to obey. Nora would oblige to Torvald because she was use to always being treated like a child. Her father treated her like a child and when she married Torvald he did the same.

Torvald treated Nora like a child he would call her silly names such as "little lark" and "little squirrel" and being a submissive wife Nora answered like a child. Throughout the story Nora and Torvald don't have trust. Everything that Nora did she basically hid from Torald. It wasn't just the letter but also the macaroons and her feelings that she was being treated as a child. Since Nora was treated like a doll all her life by not just Torvald but also her father. That was one reason she was not happy with her marriage Torvald was too much like her father. Nora wasn't happy with her marriage to Torvald they had no partnership. With marriage you have to have trust and also have communication which Nora and Torvald had neither. That's why it was easy for Nora to leave Torlvald.

With the ending it was kind of a shock how Torvald was basically begging Nora

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