A Doll's House Analytical Essay

The story “A Doll's House” has a prevalent message of moral responsibility to the husband which leads to trouble between the wife and the co-worker. When Nora's husband gets a new job managing the bank he finds out that supposedly Krogstad forged a signature disgracing him even though he had never done anything wrong. When Torvald became deathly ill Nora was not able to tell him since he had to protect her constantly and it was not acceptable for her to take care of him. Therefore, she saved his life and was never able to tell him what actually happened, which leads to the conflict between Nora and Krogstad. Since Nora borrowed money from him and he is getting fired by her husband in Korgstad's mind it is directly her fault. The whole issue …show more content…
Since Krogstad writes a letter detailing that Nora had borrowed exponential amount money by forging her dead fathers signature (which was heavily frowned upon), he purposely leaves out that she had been paying it off and they were completely debt free. In the end both Nora and Krogstad had lied to Torvald whether it was to protect him or call him a hypocrite for firing Krogstad when his wife had done the same thing. It would take an outside source to help solve the issue. Since the first letter had already been sent Torvald reads the the letter that Krogstad writes to him he is enraged, and can not believe what she has done. However, Krogstad's lady friend and friend of Nora convinces him to write another letter explaining the whole story since she believe him knowing the truth was the only way to ensure a true relationship. Only moments later he receives another letter with the correct story which causes him to apologize to her repeatedly. All of this leads to Nora seeing the whole picture of how horrible her husband is to her and how he treats