A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen: Character Analysis

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen contained only a handful of characters but all the characters had a big impact on the story line whether they were very abundant in the scenes or not. The characters and their dialogues were the reason the story progressed. The conflicts, themes and character development was shown when the characters interacted with one another and took action within the play. Two characters within A Doll’s House that created parallels and contrasts included Krogstad and Nora because they both showed signs of blackmail, gender roles and envy. To begin with, Nora was the happy wife of Torvald, who seemed to be pampered and spend money on anything to please her husband or children. At the beginning of the story, Nora seems like she is very talkative and always happy to the point where she doesn’t mind when her husband, Torvald, calls her doll-like. Nora doesn’t seem to mind that she is in a doll-like state, in fact, she laughs whenever her husband calls her a doll. As the play progresses, Nora shows that even though she is very happy and …show more content…
Nora and Krogstad may not have had similar backgrounds, but they did both commit an act of forgery. Krogstad blackmailed Nora to better his name and in the process ruined Nora’s name and her appearance to others. Nora soon realized that she is a different person than she seems to be and that she wants to be her own person by realizing that being called a doll is not something to be proud of. By realizing this with the help of Krogstad, she overcame her role as a woman and housewife. Despite everything that Krogstad did to Nora, in the end she was able to find herself and stop living the lie she was living as a doll. If it weren’t for Krogstad and Nora working against one another, Nora could still possibly be married to Torvald and live a life full of