They Made Me Do It
In the play "A Doll's House", written by Henrik Ibsen, Nora Helmer, the protagonist, is living a strenuous life; she is trying to keep her marriage together by holding a secret from Torvald Helmer, her husband. From the start of Act I, Nora's family exhibits complications with money that eventually leads Nora to self-acceptance and individuality. Regarding the issue with money, public appearance goes hand in hand for Torvald, who is obsessed with maintaining social presentations for his new-found job at the bank. In a similar fashion, Ibsen's "A Doll's House", connects to D.H Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner" in ways that aid the reader to understand both works better. Paul, the protagonist in "The Rocking-Horse Winner", is determined to prove his mother's presumption about luck wrong. He too acts in secrecy; however, it is to inadvertently take on the role as the family's breadwinner. Hester, Paul's mother, deems the family to be unlucky and therefore they will have no money. Money is problematic because their household is seemingly …show more content…
His motive is to impress his mother and while on that journey, he discovers that he is the family's breadwinner. He soon learns to accept that he will be the man in charge of getting the salary. Acceptance is exhibited when the boy states, "[o]h let her have it then! We can get some more with the other" (Lawrence, 1232). Here it is exhibited that the boy is giving his mother 5 thousand pounds like it is his job, and then saying he can get more. It can be inferred that here he takes on the role of the earner. How the boy deals with acceptance is also different than Nora because the boy does not have a way out. The narrator closes by stating “[b]ut he was unconscious, and unconscious he remained, with some brain-fever” (1235). His way out was death; he simply worked himself too hard and did not know when to
In the play "A Doll's House", written by Henrik Ibsen, Nora Helmer, the protagonist, is living a strenuous life; she is trying to keep her marriage together by holding a secret from Torvald Helmer, her husband. From the start of Act I, Nora's family exhibits complications with money that eventually leads Nora to self-acceptance and individuality. Regarding the issue with money, public appearance goes hand in hand for Torvald, who is obsessed with maintaining social presentations for his new-found job at the bank. In a similar fashion, Ibsen's "A Doll's House", connects to D.H Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner" in ways that aid the reader to understand both works better. Paul, the protagonist in "The Rocking-Horse Winner", is determined to prove his mother's presumption about luck wrong. He too acts in secrecy; however, it is to inadvertently take on the role as the family's breadwinner. Hester, Paul's mother, deems the family to be unlucky and therefore they will have no money. Money is problematic because their household is seemingly …show more content…
His motive is to impress his mother and while on that journey, he discovers that he is the family's breadwinner. He soon learns to accept that he will be the man in charge of getting the salary. Acceptance is exhibited when the boy states, "[o]h let her have it then! We can get some more with the other" (Lawrence, 1232). Here it is exhibited that the boy is giving his mother 5 thousand pounds like it is his job, and then saying he can get more. It can be inferred that here he takes on the role of the earner. How the boy deals with acceptance is also different than Nora because the boy does not have a way out. The narrator closes by stating “[b]ut he was unconscious, and unconscious he remained, with some brain-fever” (1235). His way out was death; he simply worked himself too hard and did not know when to