Roles of a Woman
Henrik Ibsen was a playwright for a Norwegian theater in Bergen. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was one of his most realistic and controversial plays of its era. This modern prose drama introduces several unconventional characters that teach the audience to expect the unexpected. This drama has distinctive traits of a controlling spouse, secrets, and most of all, the different roles or sacrifices a woman must make. A Doll’s House is a realistic drama about a family that seems to be almost perfect to everyone around them. In Act 1, Nora and Torvald are married, living in a perfect house with three perfect children. It is almost perfect until Torvald enters the room calling Nora names and treats her like a small child instead …show more content…
Come to find out, she has not only borrowed money from Krogstad when Trovald was sick. Nora also forged her deceased father’s signature on the bond. Torvald has no knowledge of her actions until Nora insists that he reads Krogstad’s letter in act 3. Even though Krogstad blackmailed Nora, he is the Protagonist character in this plot. By the end of the play Krogstad realizes he is guilty of the same crime as Nora and makes peace with her. He then mails the forged bond back to her. Torvald states "yes, it is true Nora I am saved. We both are saved both you and I. Look he sends your bond back"(Ibsen8). It was in this moment of enlightenment that Nora sees Torvald is very selfish and only considered himself in this situation. The confrontation with Torvald makes Nora realize that her marriage and happiness was never real. Torvald never loved Nora, he just enjoyed the thought of being in love with Nora. She has been nothing but a play pretty or a living doll. "I must stand quite alone if I am to understand myself and everything about me. It is for that reason I cannot remain with you any longer" (Ibsen86). Nora makes the choice to leave her husband and children. She no longer feels lead in the right direction to be a wife or
Henrik Ibsen was a playwright for a Norwegian theater in Bergen. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was one of his most realistic and controversial plays of its era. This modern prose drama introduces several unconventional characters that teach the audience to expect the unexpected. This drama has distinctive traits of a controlling spouse, secrets, and most of all, the different roles or sacrifices a woman must make. A Doll’s House is a realistic drama about a family that seems to be almost perfect to everyone around them. In Act 1, Nora and Torvald are married, living in a perfect house with three perfect children. It is almost perfect until Torvald enters the room calling Nora names and treats her like a small child instead …show more content…
Come to find out, she has not only borrowed money from Krogstad when Trovald was sick. Nora also forged her deceased father’s signature on the bond. Torvald has no knowledge of her actions until Nora insists that he reads Krogstad’s letter in act 3. Even though Krogstad blackmailed Nora, he is the Protagonist character in this plot. By the end of the play Krogstad realizes he is guilty of the same crime as Nora and makes peace with her. He then mails the forged bond back to her. Torvald states "yes, it is true Nora I am saved. We both are saved both you and I. Look he sends your bond back"(Ibsen8). It was in this moment of enlightenment that Nora sees Torvald is very selfish and only considered himself in this situation. The confrontation with Torvald makes Nora realize that her marriage and happiness was never real. Torvald never loved Nora, he just enjoyed the thought of being in love with Nora. She has been nothing but a play pretty or a living doll. "I must stand quite alone if I am to understand myself and everything about me. It is for that reason I cannot remain with you any longer" (Ibsen86). Nora makes the choice to leave her husband and children. She no longer feels lead in the right direction to be a wife or