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What evidence from the text best supports the theme that society places limits on the roles of women?

"She had danced her Tarantella, and it had been a tremendous success."

"I took my charming little Capri maiden . . . on my arm."

"An exit ought always to be effective, Mrs. Linde."

"But that is what I cannot make Nora understand

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"I took my charming little Capri maiden . . . on my arm."

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer:

"I took my charming little Capri maiden . . . on my arm."

Step-by-step explanation:

Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" is a realism play that revolves around the themes of societal restrictions on women. It also particularly confines its plot around the disintegration of the domestic life of the Helmers.

Nora is the wife of Torvald Helmer who, due to the society's "norms" was living a life of pretense, and her real being suppressed. Her husband Torvald, on the other hand, did nothing to help rather furthur adding to this form of restriction. He loves to call her names, always with a 'possessive' nature such as "my, mine" etc along with the name. One such instant of society's 'norms' of placing limits in a woman's role is seen in Act III where Mr. Helmer told Mrs. Linde of how Nora had ruled the dance floor with her charming and exquisite dancing but had to refuse her to dance longer for fear of her "spoil[ing] the effect". He then addressed his wife as "my charming little Capri maiden, --my capricious little Capri maiden, I should say--on my arm".

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