Poison My Home Analysis

Register to read the introduction… Even if Nora has a nurse taking care of her children, she still tries to have that special quality time and even plays games like Hide and Seek or just dance. Nora concludes, “Deprave my little children? Poison my home? It's not true. It can't possibly be true.” ( 71) She starts feeling guilty that she is poisoning her children with this secret of the loan when Torvald talks about Krogstad being a liar and mentions that almost all criminals have had lying mothers. Nora should not feel guilty because when Torvald gives her money for clothes, she buys cheap and sometimes not to pretty clothes for herself and would prefer buying her children good quality clothes than later save the rest of money left to pay the loan. (55) She is simply a natural mother which is why Nora felt that she had to leave her family thinking that it was the right thing as a good mother to do. She
Fernandez 3 didn't want to poison them anymore because she felt she was living a false life all these …show more content…
Honestly Emma have had so many opportunities to be a natural, good mother but something else is more important then Berthe. When Emma knew she was pregnant, “She hoped for a son, he would be strong and dark and she would call him Georges.” (84) Emma faints when she finds out that she's given birth to a girl! While Berthe kept growing, she would sometimes stay at the nurse house for days when Emma had nervous break downs with her lovers or other situations. When Emma told her to go away and leave her alone pushing berthe with her elbow “Berthe fell against the chest of drawers, striking the brass curtain hook; she cut her cheek on it, and it started to bleed.” (108) This is evident because it really shows Emma don't care about her daughter and why Berthe would stay with the nurse for