Blog Assignment #10 - A Doll's House

The play "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen is a very interesting story in my eyes. Although I am not into plays at all I did happen to catch myself in the pages of this piece of literature. The main characters that I believe brought the play to life was Nora and Torvald Helmer. Nora was known in the play as a nice and respectful woman who seemed to lose her sanity by the end of the play. Trovald worked at a bank that he enjoyed and was pleased working there. Nora created a big problem for herself by forging her fathers signature in order to take out a loan of a large some of money. This did nothing but put Nora into debt and force her to work at an incredible rate to try and pay off her debt. It seemed as though Nora always had a mental block on herself and also on the people around her trying to hide who she truly was. Nora became suicidal which she got out of later on in the play but still hid her bunched up emotions from everyone including Torvald. Also Nora believed that she wasn't herself in her marriage and was hiding who she truly was just to please Torvald. Also Nora hid a lot of things from Torvald as well such as a little thing like eating macaroons and then lying to him about it. Torvald is another character in the play that showed some type of security similar to Nora. The character Dr. Rank diagnoses Torvald with the fact that he cant face up to anything, that he should be sheltered from the realistic world. Also Torvald is very curious about what everyone around thinks of him. It also seemed as though that Torvald was a very self conscious man who didn't want anyone to give him disrespect. For example Torvald ended up firing Krogstad simply because Torvald believed Krogstad showed him no respect while working at the bank and despite Nora trying to convince Torvald to let Krogstad keep his job Torvald made his decision and fired him. Finally Torvald is really embarrassed by Nora forging her way to get the loan she wanted and didn't think too highly of her. He tried hiding from the humiliation of being involved in Nora's problems. The Helmer's try to maintain their "charmed" lives simply because they believed that they wanted what they wanted and there was no way around it. Torvald seemed to make most of the decisions when Nora really just wanted to be independent and ended up leaving both Torvald and her children to try and fulfill her destiny.