Object and ask him to stop? Or, pander to his needs? Nora from, “A Doll’s House” by playwright Henrik Ibsen, does the latter. The use of nicknames in literature is an important tool in which the author provides insight into the attitudes of the characters toward each other and “A Doll’s House” is an example in which these attitudes and illumination can be evidenced, more specifically through the character of Torvald Helmer. He refers to his wife, Nora, as “Squirrel” (Ibsen,3), “Skylark”…
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