A Doll's House

Response for "A Doll House"

The play in a doll's house takes place in one room for the first two acts. Nora is in every scene, and she never leaves the room. The action of the play all comes to her, she is the main character and everything refers to her. She is literally trapped in domestic comfort. She is acting like a child and her husband Helmer was treating her that way too, as she is a doll in a doll's house. The play suggests that this treatment is condescending and not an appropriate way to treat one's wife. Helmer was calling her by animal names like my little squirrel or my little skylark and that means that he doesn't take her serious which is not a way to treat a wife.

The most important thing that the play focuses was the ways that women are perceived in their several roles, especially in marriage and motherhood. Torvald, Nora's husband, in particular, has a very clear but slight definition of women's roles. He believes that it is the sacred obligation of a woman to be a good wife and mother. Moreover, he tells Nora that women are responsible for the morality of their children. In essence, he sees women as childlike, helpless persons detached from reality on the one hand, but on the other hand as significant decent forces responsible for the clarity of the world through their effect in the home. For example, when Torvald was telling Nora about Krogstad on Act1, he says that "my dear, I have often seen it in the course of my life as a lawyer. Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother. It seems most commonly to be the mother's influence." This states what I first say that Helmer assumed that the actions of people refers to their mother, how the women raised their children is the fact that how they act later in their life. The play describes how childish or unknown the man treats the woman on one hand. And on the other hand, if something went wrong with the child they put everything on the woman's shoulder like she was responsible.

I can say that Nora was kind of manipulator because she was acting in front of her husband that she was silly and she doesn't know a thing like she was a saint. However she kind of wasn't because she was doing her deal with Krogstad by borrowing him money to save her husband's and by forging her father's signature to use it so she can borrow money, and by lying to her husband of where she got the money from. But above that thing she did, she is a good wife that's why she acted like that. And she was far from what people think of her, a silly, spoilt person like what she told Christine when she was explaining to her how she got the money, and the intention that she will never tell Helmer about the truth. For instance, when Nora says "One day I might, yes. Many years from now, when I've lost my looks a little. Don't laugh.