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Nore undergoes a major transformation. What is that transformation and how does it reflect the title of the play? In what way does Nora refer to the title of the play? Analyze the importance of the title of the play and try todetermine what the doll house is a symbol of?

Nora eventually ceases with the "acting" of her role in what the author is obviously referring to as the doll house in the title "a doll house". Readers might find it difficult to see this since they are reading from text, and it would probably be easier to discern changes and foreshadowed and emotions from actually seeing the play, as a sudden harsh change of character may not make sense. However, in hindsight, everything Nora eventually reveals was foreshadowed, but in an expert act of subtlety, of admitting & concealing certain details in the text by the author. Seeing this varies more so with reading that with physically seeing another human.

Nora at first seems to be everything that you basically surmise within the first
few pages: her husbands loyal wife [lark, a bird in the cage being attended by a
caretaker, in this case, her husband]. However, with the revealing of her secret to the audience plants a seed of doubt as to what her true character is. Yet, as the play progresses and as things seemingly go wrong for her [the banker discovering the forgery of her father's signature, leaving evidence in the mailbox], it seems as though Nora isn't as innocent as she is once viewed, but also that she isn't entirely competent, seemingly reinforcing one of the things wanted to speak out against [wife not being able to bear burdens, sacrifice, act upon their own will, essentially not being equal to what is regarded as man].

She refers to the title of the play in how her father would call her his
little "doll child" and the mentioning of her hiding her own opinions from her father, because they differed [This also shows how Nora, at a very early age, had to adopt a mask in order to somewhat deceive people so she didn't threaten society and family norms]. This is significant since it seems that during society that time, and in the present when Nora actually challenges society, that it was a given that parents from the previous generations seemingly molded their children, controlling their actions through subtle words and love in much the same way as controlling a doll for the love of a grand storm but in the case of humans, for the love having a life deemed either acceptable/worthy/etc. of society, for the love of comfortable conformity.