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The Sacrificial Role Women In Henrik Ibsen’s a Doll’s House, Ibsen’s portraits the sacrifices needed to be a woman in all economic classes during the late 1870’s. He uses three woman form different economic status to demonstrate the consent duty of a woman. Nora the protagonist, is the main example since a child she was treated like “a doll,” never exposed to the ugly because that was the man’s affairs. Completely seen as being in incompetent at the beginning of the play, merely surviving on being dependent of her husband Torvald. Her job is to raise the children and have the house “happy and welcoming,” as Torvald claims. Nora not only sacrifices her feelings and opinions but her dignity so her husband can feel that he is a real man, because he holds the dominant role. Nora also had to sacrifice her father to care for her sick husband which leaves her position vulnerable and is blackmailed by Krogstad. Mrs. Linde, Nora’s childhood friend, has