... be through Torvald's control of Nora's dress. Just as Nora represents a doll or child, the outside world represents reality, and someone from reality, Kristine, fixes the dress and Nora's marriage. Kristine is from outside the Helmer home. Ibsen has Kristine show Nora reality and freedom from this poisonous marriage. In Act 3 after Krogstad's letter which explains Nora's borrowing and forgery, has arrived in ... the letter box Nora panics to Kristine who says: " 'There, I can't see anything more to mend now...'" Although Ibsen has Kristine directly referring to the fancy dress, Ibs...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... hinting that Nora will leave before the play is over. She says, "do you think that [the children] would forget their mother if she was gone for good?- Kristine Linde was a childhood friend of Nora's. She has a major effect on events that happen in the play. She is the first character to see that Nora is ... her savior. Nora is just acting to fit into the role that the society and Torvald has made for her. Kristine has gone through many tough times, so she has much more real experience than Nora. Kristine's past was very rough, but the things she has lived through make her the strong pers...

• Word Count: 1908
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... Ibsen's play, A Doll's House, focuses on the unjust treatment of women and the hardships they faced as they struggled in a society dominated by men. In the play, Nora Helmer and Kristine Linde are two women who have experienced their own share of trials and tribulations as they attempt to survive in a man's world. At first, Nora appears completely content with her ... expected of her. Nora finally comes to the realization that all her life she has conformed to a certain lifestyle simply to satisfy her husband's and society's expectations of her. Moreover, Kristine Linde is Nora's childh...

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• Grade Level: High School

... to lie to him because he would not have of accepted anything from her because it would have been insulting to him. When an old school friend of Nora's named Kristine Linde asks Nora if she will ever tell him the truth Nora replied "Some day perhaps many years in time, when I"m no longer as pretty as I am now. You musn ... ...

• Word Count: 1919
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• Grade Level: High School

... not only to the outside world, but also to one another. The restrictions involved in living within a created role stifle their marriage and their individuality and create a gender conflict. When Kristine Linde asks Nora if she will ever tell Torvald about the loan from Krogstad, Nora replies, "Good heavens, how could you ever imagine such a thing! . . . It would spoil everything between ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , macaroons! I thought they were contraband here- (982). Nora again lies so that Dr. Rank will not report the incident to her husband. She states, "Yes, but these are some that Kristine gave me- (982). However, Nora's deception is shown through more than just one symbol. The dance she performed the night of the costume party is also symbolic of her rebelliousness ... ...

• Word Count: 1908
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School