In today’s society people see celebrities become trapped within their personas all the time. Amanda Bynes, Lindsay Lohan, Justin Bieber and countless other public idols have, seemingly, just gone off the deep end. But this isn’t new, we’ve seen it millions of times throughout history. We see it in stars, such as Elvis Presley or Marilyn Monroe, as well as in movies such as The Devil Wears Prada, and even in older works such as H. Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House, first performed in the 1870’s. People crumble in on themselves as they try to stand against the imaginary ideal of who society believes that they should be, as shown through Nora in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen.
As A Doll’s House opens the audience catches slight glimpses of Nora Helmer, a stay at home mother, playing as though her life is perfect, with or without spectators around to see. When a …show more content…
For example, in Act 2 of A Doll’s House, Ms. Linden suggests that Nora should tell her husband, Torvald, of the debt she incurred to save his life. The spectators quickly see Nora’s convoluted viewpoint as she exclaims, aghast at the suggestion “Good heavens! What can you be thinking of? Tell him when he has such a loathing of debt And besides-how painful and humiliating it would be for Torvald, with his manly self-respect, to know that he owed anything to me! It would utterly upset the relation between us; our beautiful, happy home would never again be what it is”(Ibsen,151, Act 2). Nora has no thought that Torvald would love her no matter what, she believes that just knowing what she did for him would ruin their marriage. Sometimes people believe that the lies they tell are for the sake of another, and that if one reveals the truth, it will pillage the foundation of the relationship. However, many times it is how long they hid their lie which destroys the relationship in the
As A Doll’s House opens the audience catches slight glimpses of Nora Helmer, a stay at home mother, playing as though her life is perfect, with or without spectators around to see. When a …show more content…
For example, in Act 2 of A Doll’s House, Ms. Linden suggests that Nora should tell her husband, Torvald, of the debt she incurred to save his life. The spectators quickly see Nora’s convoluted viewpoint as she exclaims, aghast at the suggestion “Good heavens! What can you be thinking of? Tell him when he has such a loathing of debt And besides-how painful and humiliating it would be for Torvald, with his manly self-respect, to know that he owed anything to me! It would utterly upset the relation between us; our beautiful, happy home would never again be what it is”(Ibsen,151, Act 2). Nora has no thought that Torvald would love her no matter what, she believes that just knowing what she did for him would ruin their marriage. Sometimes people believe that the lies they tell are for the sake of another, and that if one reveals the truth, it will pillage the foundation of the relationship. However, many times it is how long they hid their lie which destroys the relationship in the