In my opinion, Torvald is not an antagonist but a victim. Both of him and Nora are suffered from nineteenth-century societal.
In nineteenth-century of Europe, patriarchy was the sole form of the social system. Only males were offered power to dominate the ‘world’. Males could always lead to all levels of society in religion, legal and economic, such as a moral authority. In a family, the father or husband could control all in the house, furnishing or even the family members. Women were the belongings of males. They lived under limitation and could not control their own fate but by someone.
Warfare could be discovered in every part of nineteenth-century Europe. The changes of political and cultural sense encouraged Ibsen began to review the societal norms. Morality is important in order to a person and society, no matter which situation. The social status of a person is depended on his reputation. It also made the contradiction between Torvald and Nora.
Nora was …show more content…
The role of Nora is to carry out the most sacred duties, which are marriage and motherhood. On account of children always stay with the mother, it is normal to assume that mother is the most influential person of the children. He cannot imagine Nora, his joy and pride, is a criminal and a deceitful mother. In his mind Nora has already turned into a trickster to lie to everyone, she can no longer bring up the children as he does not want the children to breathe in an atmosphere of lies infects and full of the germs of evil in home and poison their whole life . Besides, Torvald worries about that the miserable creature of thoughtless Nora will shatter all his enjoyment and collapse his future, then he blames Nora with offensive words. Actually, it is reasonable for Torvald’s reaction in that generation inasmuch as a wife cannot borrow money without her husband’s consent , let alone Nora forged her father’s
In nineteenth-century of Europe, patriarchy was the sole form of the social system. Only males were offered power to dominate the ‘world’. Males could always lead to all levels of society in religion, legal and economic, such as a moral authority. In a family, the father or husband could control all in the house, furnishing or even the family members. Women were the belongings of males. They lived under limitation and could not control their own fate but by someone.
Warfare could be discovered in every part of nineteenth-century Europe. The changes of political and cultural sense encouraged Ibsen began to review the societal norms. Morality is important in order to a person and society, no matter which situation. The social status of a person is depended on his reputation. It also made the contradiction between Torvald and Nora.
Nora was …show more content…
The role of Nora is to carry out the most sacred duties, which are marriage and motherhood. On account of children always stay with the mother, it is normal to assume that mother is the most influential person of the children. He cannot imagine Nora, his joy and pride, is a criminal and a deceitful mother. In his mind Nora has already turned into a trickster to lie to everyone, she can no longer bring up the children as he does not want the children to breathe in an atmosphere of lies infects and full of the germs of evil in home and poison their whole life . Besides, Torvald worries about that the miserable creature of thoughtless Nora will shatter all his enjoyment and collapse his future, then he blames Nora with offensive words. Actually, it is reasonable for Torvald’s reaction in that generation inasmuch as a wife cannot borrow money without her husband’s consent , let alone Nora forged her father’s