A Doll's House Foil Essay

In the play A Doll’s House, the audience gets introduced to two very different relationships, one of a man who treats his wife like a child, and another in which a woman who left a man heartbroken, wishes to reconnect the feeling of romance they once shared. These two relationships can be considered to foil each other due to the fact that the first only contained love and nothing else of value, while the second showed love, respect and trust. By the end of the play, the wife came to her senses and left her husband and children to look for a better life, while to hopeless romantics fell back in love with each other. Although a relationship should start with loving another person, any relationship lacking trust and respect is bound to fail because one partner will feel inferior to the other. In A Doll’s House Torvald continuously calls Nora many different pet names. “Torvald: (from the …show more content…
Linde and Krogstad had a rocky start to their relationship, but because the found respect for each other and trusted each other to be loyal, they were able to overcome their past and look forward to the future they would soon share. “Krogstad: When I lost you, I felt as if the ground beneath my feet had given way. Look at me now- I’m like a shipwrecked man clinging to a piece of wreckage. … Mrs. Linde: Well, I’m like a shipwrecked woman clinging to a piece of wreckage- no one to mourn for, to care for… Two people on the same piece of wreckage would stand a better chance than on their own” (Ibsen 89). When two people are honest to each other and to themselves, then they are able to build and sustain a relationship. When Krogstad first lost Mrs. Linde to a richer man, he felt terrible and felt like a “shipwrecked man”. At the same time, Mrs. Linde loved the money and social status but found that none of it mattered if you do not love, respect, or trust the person you are with. She did not realize what she had until she lost it and, in this way, she felt like a “shipwrecked