To what extent is marriage in ‘A Dolls House’ by Henrik Ibsen being compromised by society in 1879?
In the play A Doll’s House written by Henrik Ibsen, introduces one of the main themes to be love and marriage which is the base and impact of the story due to the timeline the play follows which is based on how two individuals came together as “equals” and how they face up different conflicts during their marriage. Marriage in Victorian times (1879), forced the ideology that women had to get married at a young age and cope with the expectation of being a wife this included in being naïve, they had to dedicated themselves to their homes and children; be supportive with their husbands and they had certain restrictions like handling money. Women …show more content…
The love between the protagonists is deceitful since true love was not a main value when it came to marriage in 1879. In the book this is shown by Nora talking to her Nurse in act two, “I shall not be able to be [….] with them” the children represent the only love in her marriage. She feels she has sin and needs to punish herself by prohibiting her to be with her children no matter if the conflict wasn’t with them. This leads Nora not to tell her husband that she had borrowed money from Krogstad; there is no real trust in each other, she is afraid of telling him even if she did that do help him because she’s afraid her family will be judged by her actions and Torvald will loose his …show more content…
Children control dolls houses and if they think that life is perfect and easy that is the life their dolls will have, this will have an effect on how they think families work and how they should be to their husbands and wife’s when they grow up. This leads us to see how Nora acted towards her husband and as the play continues we can see that by different reasons Nora thinks her marriage is based on true love which makes her borrow some money despite it was forbidden by society, the love we could see at the beginning of the play, with her children and her husband vanishes since Torvald starts treating her as any man would in that era; he wanted to have control and wanted to punish Nora to a certain extent by her actions. The ideology of marriage is for couples to show support for each another, in order for their marriage to work. If Nora’s marriage with Torvald was real she wouldn´t have left at the end and even when Torvald was sorry for what he told her she still left because the damage was already done and no matter if there was a demonstration of love from her husband, she was already emotionally
In the play A Doll’s House written by Henrik Ibsen, introduces one of the main themes to be love and marriage which is the base and impact of the story due to the timeline the play follows which is based on how two individuals came together as “equals” and how they face up different conflicts during their marriage. Marriage in Victorian times (1879), forced the ideology that women had to get married at a young age and cope with the expectation of being a wife this included in being naïve, they had to dedicated themselves to their homes and children; be supportive with their husbands and they had certain restrictions like handling money. Women …show more content…
The love between the protagonists is deceitful since true love was not a main value when it came to marriage in 1879. In the book this is shown by Nora talking to her Nurse in act two, “I shall not be able to be [….] with them” the children represent the only love in her marriage. She feels she has sin and needs to punish herself by prohibiting her to be with her children no matter if the conflict wasn’t with them. This leads Nora not to tell her husband that she had borrowed money from Krogstad; there is no real trust in each other, she is afraid of telling him even if she did that do help him because she’s afraid her family will be judged by her actions and Torvald will loose his …show more content…
Children control dolls houses and if they think that life is perfect and easy that is the life their dolls will have, this will have an effect on how they think families work and how they should be to their husbands and wife’s when they grow up. This leads us to see how Nora acted towards her husband and as the play continues we can see that by different reasons Nora thinks her marriage is based on true love which makes her borrow some money despite it was forbidden by society, the love we could see at the beginning of the play, with her children and her husband vanishes since Torvald starts treating her as any man would in that era; he wanted to have control and wanted to punish Nora to a certain extent by her actions. The ideology of marriage is for couples to show support for each another, in order for their marriage to work. If Nora’s marriage with Torvald was real she wouldn´t have left at the end and even when Torvald was sorry for what he told her she still left because the damage was already done and no matter if there was a demonstration of love from her husband, she was already emotionally