Torvald Helmer In A Doll's House

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A Doll’s House presented us with the drama of the disintegrating marriage of Nora and Torvald Helmer. The greatness in A doll’s house lies in its openness to a multiplicity of interpretations. On one hand we have the irresponsible and childish Nora. Right alongside her is Torvald, whom in the course of their eight years of marriage encumbered his wife and eventually led her to a breaking point resulting in her departure. Who can take responsibility of this doll house? Could it be Torvald with is delusional, controlling and hypocritical demeanor? It certainly didn’t help. Torvald’s downright cowardly insecurities had split a rift in the marriage and ultimately led Nora to do the un-forgivable.

Nora at first to the reasonable reader seems just as mad as Torvald, and while that statement might hold its weight in gold, one can’t help but ponder why Nora is just the way she is? Torvald is the entire world to Nora. She is merely a homebody, and like a piece of furniture is there for matters of appearance.
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Just as his first lines are spoken in the play, he is onto Nora for her impractical spending habits "Bought, did you say? All these things? Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?". Only to turn around and give her more money right after. Even when he finds out about the great crime he fails to see that Nora had done all of this only to revive him to better health. He ensues to his rage and erupts into a cloud of anger before Nora. Then he trys to make himself calm down and comes up with a plan to cover the whole thing up."I must try and appease [Krogstad] some way or another. The matter must be hushed up at any cost." Torvald is going against his own philosophy of life when he says this and really depicts his true character. Shortly after he reads Krogstad’s retraction letter acts as if nothing happen and that everything was back to

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