PEER BLOG: LEAH'S BLOG
what i noticed about this play was the the husband trovald helmer did not treat his wife nora as a normal human being. he almost treated nora as if she were an object, and thought she was to childish to bring up or discuss anything that had meaning. everything in the house was always little and fluffy and nothing was ever truly real, like this things that actually bring families together. he always called her "darling" or "singing bird" almost as if he owned her. at first, nora does everything for her husband and children and feels compelled to keep them always entertained, she spent a lot of money and never cared about the serious aspects of life. money was always and issue in the helmer house hold but nora would spend all of it. it is said in the play that her husband is ill (with depression) and it was advised that they go down to the south for a while so that he could get better. the problem with that they have no money for this trip to italy so nora sells a bond that is basically fake, where she foraged her dead fathers signature. she gave it to a man by the name of Nils Krogstad who ends up giving her 250 pounds. she hides this from her husband and tell him that it was her fathers money that was paying for the trip. huge lie.its a great secret until her husband decides to fire krogstad. this is bad because now krogstad wants the money that nora borrowed from him and she cant give it to him. she holds tis worry and this guilt that her husband might find out and when he does, he freaks out and she finally sees her husband for what he really was and she realized that she had never loved him. and what pushed her away the most was the fact that he would not stand up for her. thats when she knew that she had to find herself and leave all of it behind. she had to find herself, and he restricted her of doing so. she left her husband and children behind.
MY RESPONSE:
Henrick Isben's "A Doll's House" is a unique story that shows the struggle of a husband, Torvald Helmer, restricting his wife, Nora, into what he wants her to be, like a doll. I like the way you introduced that their conversations were not serious, but rather immature, thus causing Nora to be the way she is in the story. These conversations reflected on their family too because Nora played with the children but never really cared for them, thus depicting the lack of the sense of family. Throughout the story, nothing was serious except for money. Some examples include when she forged her dead father's signature and when her husband told her to stop eating sweets, as though she was a child. A more literary view on the situation is through the foreshadowing of Nora's departure by a family friend named Mrs. Linde who talked with Nora about how when her husband died she became more independent and free. Now, whether this was a coincidence or it got Nora to her realization, it is an important parallel in the story. In addition, the climax of the story is when Torvald opens the letters from Nils Krogstad. The first letter contained the situation of Nora forging her father's signature for the loan in order to move due to her husband's health, thus having leaving them to pay off the debt. Torvald was furious but later read the second letter, which stated that Krogstad allowed Nora to be free of debt, in which Torvald was delighted. This sudden change causes Nora's realization that her husband did not really care for her, but rather the money and that her husband was very selfish because he did not even thank her for the great risk she endured for him by forging the signature. This realization leads to the end of the play where Nora leaves her husband and children behind. Before she left, she shed her clothes and put on new ones, thus symbolically representing her transformation into a true, free woman who was leaving her "doll house" and selfish husband in the past.
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