Compare Nora's Relationship With Her Children

How well does your family work together and treat each other? How your mother and father treats you and each other can help the dynamic of the family flow better. In the play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, Nora’s children affect her and Torvalds life, so how does Nora’s interaction with her children develop the play’s themes? Well, Nora's relationship with her kids strains her and Torvald's relationship because Torvald still looks at Nora as if she is a child even though she is the mother of the children. In general, Nora’s relationship with her children is very playful. At the very beginning of the story on page 944, Nora bought all of the children gifts. Later, Nora tells the Nurse to leave the children with her and she says to the children, "Yes, let's play hide and seek.", and they all play together. Nora expresses that she enjoys playing with the children when she laughs with them and talks to them. At one point, the story says, "She creeps forward as if to scare them.” Nora is goofy around the kids. The typical mother figure, at the time, played with the children while the Nurse would take care of feeding, cleaning, and taking care of the children. Nora never cooked for them or cleaned them up. Nora is depicted with characteristics similar …show more content…
Nora is a very playful person around her children. She is depicted as childish, and Torvald treats her like a child because of it. Nora, finally, realizes what Torvald is doing, and she is not happy that she is useless in the family. The relationship between Torvald and Nora starts to fall apart. Nora's relationship with her kids definitely causes a strain in her and Torvald's relationship because Torvald looks at Nora as if she is a child and incapable of anything. After seeing how the family dynamic can hurt a family, you should look into your family and see what you all can do better to work together and care for each