they lost the war and they were mad and Japan evated China with the germans.
<span>the old man is Marcus Aurelius
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They were because the region had rich deposits of minerals.
It represents Nora's anger about the inequality between men and women.
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Both seem to apply, she is frustrated that she has to depend all on her husband, how her life is in his hands, fitting into the explanation of the dance representing a women frustration in oppression. It also fits the Interpretation of the venomous spider because the crimes and the lies she has held secret might soon have a "venomous" effect in the household.