Ensure that you can write about Helmer’s melodramatic fantasies. Helmer tells Nora, ‘I wish some terrible   might threaten you’ (Act 3, p. 92).

Ask yourself: Is Helmer more governed by gender stereotypes than Nora?

Possible answer: He performs heroic male stereotypes until reality intervenes; in the last scene Nora rejects her stereotype, but Helmer cannot find an alternative for himself.