Greed in A Doll’s House In A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen the character Nora Helmer gets displayed as having greedy characteristics by incorporating them into the dialogue and the stage directions. Greed is defined as intense and selfish desire for something. The novel takes place during the Victorian era with a highly defined class systems. This creates jealousy in lower classes which generally leads to greed. The Helmers live in the middle class, however, Nora strives for upper class status and will do anything in order to appear as an upper class citizen. Nora also displays greedy characteristics such as selfishness throughout the play. Her spendthrift personality causes many financial problems, which includes greed.
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Nora wants everything perfect. She craves upper class status. Nora tends to speak of herself in this manner. In act I she scolds at Krogstad, “I didn’t trouble myself about you at all”(Nora.I.pg53) In saying this Nora displays her selfishness. She shows that she will generally will not think of other people. This attests to Nora’s childlike selfishness. Most mature adults will, in some way, care for other people. During the Victorian era some people would know everything that went on in the town and in turn tell everyone else. This could affect the Helmer’s …show more content…
After Krogstad visits in the first act, Torvald tells Nora to stay away from him and to not listen to him because he, “is a fog of lies.” (Torvald.I.pg 58) In the scene before this one, the audience makes the discovery that Nora commits fraud and has lied to Torvald for many years. Throughout the play Nora tries to hide this lie like a mask. Nora’s lie creates a fog of greed, which causes numerous issues towards the end of the play. In the Victorian era fraud was punishable by death and or by life in prison. This would ruin Torvald’s standing in the community and cause more issues down the road. Issues such as unemployment and
The dialogue between …show more content…
Nora wants everything perfect. She craves upper class status. Nora tends to speak of herself in this manner. In act I she scolds at Krogstad, “I didn’t trouble myself about you at all”(Nora.I.pg53) In saying this Nora displays her selfishness. She shows that she will generally will not think of other people. This attests to Nora’s childlike selfishness. Most mature adults will, in some way, care for other people. During the Victorian era some people would know everything that went on in the town and in turn tell everyone else. This could affect the Helmer’s …show more content…
After Krogstad visits in the first act, Torvald tells Nora to stay away from him and to not listen to him because he, “is a fog of lies.” (Torvald.I.pg 58) In the scene before this one, the audience makes the discovery that Nora commits fraud and has lied to Torvald for many years. Throughout the play Nora tries to hide this lie like a mask. Nora’s lie creates a fog of greed, which causes numerous issues towards the end of the play. In the Victorian era fraud was punishable by death and or by life in prison. This would ruin Torvald’s standing in the community and cause more issues down the road. Issues such as unemployment and