“A Doll's House” is a three-act play in prose written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879. A Doll House is about a women named Nora Helmer. She is the wife of Torvalds Helmer, and the mother of his children. 8 years before the play is set, Nora takes out loan for a trip to Italy to save her husband’s life. She forges her father’s signature, and she never tells her husband about the loan. She pretends that the loan was actually money given to her by her father. During the story, Nora struggles to hide what she did when Krogstad, the man who leant her the money, tries to blackmail her. Eventually the truth comes out, and Nora realizes that the life she had wasn’t the one that she wanted, and that her marriage to Torvald was based on mutual fantasies and
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Kristine Linde Kristine Linde hasn’t been sheltered from the world, unlike Nora who has been sheltered assumedly all her life. Kristine has been through many hardships and toils, which allows her to see the reality for what it is. I n Kristine’s younger days, she had to sacrifice love for the sake of her family. Her mother was ill, and she needed to take care of her mother and brothers. So instead of marrying the man she loved, Krogstad, she married a businessman in order to take care of her family. Kristine is also a working women, due to her husband’s death she has had to work hard, and struggle to make ends meet. Allowing her to see the reality of the world since she has been in it, she has gone through things, and because she was never sheltered. On the other hand, Nora has been sheltered by her father and Torvald. Due to Nora being sheltered, her reality is deluded and she is unable to see the world realistically. Even though Nora has worked a few odd jobs to pay off the debt her life has been relatively easy. Even when taking out a debt, instead of facing reality by telling Torvald, she hides behind a lie. When telling Kristine about what she did, we see Nora’s deluded reality when she explains about how she wishes the debt would be paid off and she says, “Then I used to sit here and imagine that a rich old gentleman had fallen in love with me--… Be …show more content…
Nora Helmer is to have all I possess paid over to her at once in cash.’” This shows that Nora doesn’t
Kristine Linde Kristine Linde hasn’t been sheltered from the world, unlike Nora who has been sheltered assumedly all her life. Kristine has been through many hardships and toils, which allows her to see the reality for what it is. I n Kristine’s younger days, she had to sacrifice love for the sake of her family. Her mother was ill, and she needed to take care of her mother and brothers. So instead of marrying the man she loved, Krogstad, she married a businessman in order to take care of her family. Kristine is also a working women, due to her husband’s death she has had to work hard, and struggle to make ends meet. Allowing her to see the reality of the world since she has been in it, she has gone through things, and because she was never sheltered. On the other hand, Nora has been sheltered by her father and Torvald. Due to Nora being sheltered, her reality is deluded and she is unable to see the world realistically. Even though Nora has worked a few odd jobs to pay off the debt her life has been relatively easy. Even when taking out a debt, instead of facing reality by telling Torvald, she hides behind a lie. When telling Kristine about what she did, we see Nora’s deluded reality when she explains about how she wishes the debt would be paid off and she says, “Then I used to sit here and imagine that a rich old gentleman had fallen in love with me--… Be …show more content…
Nora Helmer is to have all I possess paid over to her at once in cash.’” This shows that Nora doesn’t