You guys read "et dukkehjem"/"A Doll House"?! wow. I didn't think that anyone outside Scandinavia cared for Norwegian litterature
Anyway. Henrik Ibsen was a realist who prefered to write about problems in every day life. He focused on the suppression of women in "A Doll House" in 1879. We are introduced to what seems to be a happy family but it's in fact as the title implies: a doll house where Torvald is the puppet master of his wife and children. When it was written is was an outrage since Nora leaves Torvald in the end. But now-a-days it's just as interesting to take a look at the reasons why she left. She feels that she's living another person's life - like someone else (Torvald) has decided her personality for her.
We're not suppose to feel sorry for Nora, only to understand her reasons for leaving:
Torvald: Først og fremst er du en kone og mor. (first and foremost you're a wife and a mother)
Nora: Det tror jeg ikke mer. Jeg tror jeg først og fremst er et individ, like mye som det du er. ( I don't think that anymore. I think first and foremost I'm an individual just as much as you are)