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A Dolls House

 

            
             As all little girls did when they were young, I would spend my days playing dolls and house, making up stories and dreaming up of the perfect life. How fun it used to be to get dressed up and play make believe, but eventually the fun and games came to an end. In A Doll's House, however, we read of a woman subjected to a man's game. Nora and Torvald seem to be a happily married couple living in what they believe to be a perfect story, but from the very beginning of the play, the reader gets a good view of the way the marriage really is. Torvald treats Nora with the same respect as he treats their children, inferior and unimportant. A Doll's House emphasized the worth of the individual is of supreme importance not just a character in a play.
             Nora and Torvald have somewhat of a pet-master relationship; Nora responds to Torvald just like a pet responds to his master's orders. Torvald is so strict with Nora that she has to lie and bend around the truth so Torvald doesn't get mad. In one part of the play, Nora offers Dr. Rank macaroons, which are forbidden in the house, and when he brings the fact of the matter up she quickly lies telling him that Christine brought them for her. "See here, macaroons! I thought they were contraband here,"" said Dr. Rank. "Yes but these are some that Kristine gave me- replied Nora. (Ibsen, 979).
             In the Doll House there is quite a bit of foreshadowing; one example of it is when Nora is speaking with Mrs. Linde in Act One, she claims that she will be "free" after the New Year "after she has paid off her debt to Krogstad. Yes she will be free but not from Krogstad rather her husband. Nora says, "Free. To be free, absolutely free. To spend time playing with the children. To have a clean, beautiful house, the way Torvald likes it.""(Ibsen 977) She believes that freedom will give her time to be a mother and traditional wife who maintains a beautiful home, just as Torvald likes it.


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