RR on Feminist Perspective for "A dolls House"

The book "A dolls house" by Henrik Ibsen is a story about a woman who has never had to make any major decisions her whole life, she has been treated like a child from her father to her husband and she does the same thing to her children, but one day she realizes that the life she is living is not her own. She has been a play toy or in the authors words a "doll" her whole life, she has been told what to do, where to go, what to wear etc; and all this time she enjoyed the life of a doll with out questioning it. However she begins to think of herself for the first time and decides to abandon her wealthy home, husband, kids, basically her entire life which was started for her by her now dead father and continued by her husband, all they did was place her in it and they told her what she must do, like a doll. Lois Tyson's book "Living For a Diverse World" explains the meaning of feminism and why the active portal of a feminist in a patriarchal society may be misleading or misunderstood. First of all Tyson  explains what patriarchal means, she states "a patriarchy is any society in which men hold all or most of the power." (86). In a patriarchy there are basic gender roles, the ones that are pro-patriarchy are when  the male is given the role of the "strong, rational, protector.(84). Tyson also stated that the dominant power in the home, for the female it's "submissive, emotional nurturer, (84) normally the house wife who cooks and cleans but does not complain to her husband about any of the chores because he is the "bread winner" in this case. However, Tyson claims at times in literary works that are based in a patriarchal society women who have power or the ones who do not fit the role of the "average" house wife or the description of the pro-patriarchal female are stereotyped as "nags, gossips, seductresses, and "bitches"". (84). When I apply this theory to Ibsen's book, from a feminist perspective I can see how this book can be argued on both sides of the panels, it can be argued as being pro-patriarchy or anti-patriarchy, anti patriarchy is used in books to show how the patriarchal society is wrong. In Nora's case (the main character in Ibsen's book) we can see that she first starts of as a traditional patriarchal female. She did what ever her husband told her to do, at one point to distract her husband from opening the mailbox so he can not discover the evidence of her doings, she ask him what she should wear to the party, and he tells her to wear what she wants but she then says, why cant he be her brain and tell her what to wear, and do, which is pro-patriarchal because her husband is not only taking up the role of the dominant sex but he is also playing the protector, he tells her what to do and she does it, and it's even more pro-patriarchal because she is the one asking him to be her protector instead of him being completely dominant Nora plays the perfect submissive wife because she asks for it, as if to say to him and the audience that she enjoys his dominance. However the story can be seen as anti-patriarchal because she abandons everything she has ever been given in the ens because she believes that she has not been given a fair chance in living her life. This shows the suffering that women go through in a pro-patriarchal society. Tyson states this about literary works that portray anti-patriarchal societies "for example a novel or a poem may show us that the character who conforms to traditional gender roles are harmed by the role." (85). In the book Nora is willing to commit suicide just to save her husbands reputation however when she realizes he was not willing to do the same for her she decides to leave and live life for herself. This can also be argued as being a negative depiction of a  patriarchal society because some may argue that it was wrong for Nora to abandon the children she had with her husband, they may say it was cruel, and if she played a traditional patriarchal gender role she would have never been so cruel to leave her children.