An Analysis on Mrs. Linde in A Doll’s House
Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House is a break through on the ideas 19th century conventional feminine status. The play calls for women being independent in the masculine society during that period. It is about a woman’s awakening journey of discovering the subject of self. The protagonist, Nora leaves the house and her family where in her past thirty-year life the inner self has been suppressed. The character Mrs. Linde plays an essential role in the play, leading the audiences to an insight and deeper understanding on the tragic marriage of Nora. Through Nora’s communication with Mrs. Linde, the audiences witness all the changes of Nora inside, all the struggles she has been through, and with the push …show more content…
Linde, after all these years experience, has become an alerted and suspicious woman. In the Second Act of the play, she detects the fact that Dr. Rank secretly is in love with Nora immediately during the first time they met. But for Nora, after all these years’ getting along with him, she is not aware of it at all. She is simple-minded and her only focus of her life is Mr. Helmer. The character Mrs. Linde is a perfect setting, she makes the flow of the plot in a smooth and sensible manner. She suspected that Dr. Rank is the rich that borrowed money to Nora, which indicates Mrs. Linde’s careful and suspicious characteristic, she observes everything so that Nora cannot hind anything from her. So she decides to give in concealing her worries and tells Mrs. Linde the truth about her …show more content…
Linde is also the person that has a significant influence on how the plot develops, since she has the ability to change the fate of Nora and how the story ends. In most educational plays, there is always a person who stays in sober, a person who is conscious of the fakeness of the harmony world. He or She either as the main characters that being a freak among others, or awakens the main character when they are unclear about their situation. In this play, Mrs. Linde is the character that recognized and exposed the problems of Nora’s marriage before others realized them. The Most significant action of Mrs. Linde is her revealing Nora’s secret to Mr. Helmer. Mrs. Linde planned to help Nora keep her secret, but at last she changed her mind. She failed to persuade Nora to tell her husband the truth, but even so, she still let Mr. Helmer found out his wife’s secret, since Mrs. Linde is clear about Nora’s situation in that house, and believes that it would be the best for Nora to tear off the peaceful and happy camouflage of the family life, and that it is a good move to enlighten her, making her face the truth of her
Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House is a break through on the ideas 19th century conventional feminine status. The play calls for women being independent in the masculine society during that period. It is about a woman’s awakening journey of discovering the subject of self. The protagonist, Nora leaves the house and her family where in her past thirty-year life the inner self has been suppressed. The character Mrs. Linde plays an essential role in the play, leading the audiences to an insight and deeper understanding on the tragic marriage of Nora. Through Nora’s communication with Mrs. Linde, the audiences witness all the changes of Nora inside, all the struggles she has been through, and with the push …show more content…
Linde, after all these years experience, has become an alerted and suspicious woman. In the Second Act of the play, she detects the fact that Dr. Rank secretly is in love with Nora immediately during the first time they met. But for Nora, after all these years’ getting along with him, she is not aware of it at all. She is simple-minded and her only focus of her life is Mr. Helmer. The character Mrs. Linde is a perfect setting, she makes the flow of the plot in a smooth and sensible manner. She suspected that Dr. Rank is the rich that borrowed money to Nora, which indicates Mrs. Linde’s careful and suspicious characteristic, she observes everything so that Nora cannot hind anything from her. So she decides to give in concealing her worries and tells Mrs. Linde the truth about her …show more content…
Linde is also the person that has a significant influence on how the plot develops, since she has the ability to change the fate of Nora and how the story ends. In most educational plays, there is always a person who stays in sober, a person who is conscious of the fakeness of the harmony world. He or She either as the main characters that being a freak among others, or awakens the main character when they are unclear about their situation. In this play, Mrs. Linde is the character that recognized and exposed the problems of Nora’s marriage before others realized them. The Most significant action of Mrs. Linde is her revealing Nora’s secret to Mr. Helmer. Mrs. Linde planned to help Nora keep her secret, but at last she changed her mind. She failed to persuade Nora to tell her husband the truth, but even so, she still let Mr. Helmer found out his wife’s secret, since Mrs. Linde is clear about Nora’s situation in that house, and believes that it would be the best for Nora to tear off the peaceful and happy camouflage of the family life, and that it is a good move to enlighten her, making her face the truth of her