He is blind to her strengths and exaggerates her weaknesses, and sees her only as someone to entertain and enhance his image in the eyes of others.
HOW NORA RELATES to TORVALD
While clearly Torvald sees Nora as an entertaining child who must be guided, Nora's conversations with her friend Mrs. Linde show that to some extent, Torvald is right. Mrs. Linde visits Nora while she is in some distress. Her husband has died and she desperately needs a job. As Nora talks to her, she says whatever pops into her head first without considering how it will affect Mrs. Linde. She comments that Mrs. Linde is not as attractive as she once was. Even though she knows Mrs. Linde has no income, she boasts that with Torvald's promotion they will have "pots and pots of money." Right after Mrs. Linde tells her old friend that she had no children from her marriage, Nora speaks highly of her own three children. This suggests that Nora as well as Torvald has a strong selfish streak in her.
With Torvald, she demonstrates this by manipulating him. She knows that he cannot deny her. By agreeing that she spends too much money, she manipulates him into giving her more. It should be noted, though, that Nora has to play the hand she has been dealt. She is married to a man who is utterly convinced of his superiority to her, and she lives in a time when cultural standards support her husband's view of what kind of wife Nora should be.
Nora has another manipulative tool. Nora lies to Torvald, about relatively trivial things as well as very serious ones. When necessary, she lies to others as well in order to make sure Torvald does not find out about her lies.
Torvald has forbidden her to bring macaroons into the house, believing that they are bad for her teeth. Nora buys them any way, eats them, but then lies multiple times and says she has not. Most people would agree with her on this lie, because his dictates about what she can and cannot eat appear to be an extreme level of controlling her. But since Torvald is so repulsed by lying, when Nora offers a macaroon to...
Instead of needing his help and protection, Torvald finds out that it was only Nora's role playing and really she was capable of working and doing deceptive things. Torvald's response to the letter shows that he has very little self-awareness and really thought that the "role-plays" were reality. 5. Torvald believes that marriage and family are important, and that the man or husband is in control. Torvald thinks that men
Yet as Goldman notes, Nora "worships her husband, believes in him implicitly, and is sure that if ever her safety should be menaced, Torvald, her idol, her god, would perform the miracle" that would set her free. It turned out that Mrs. Linde would set in motion the miracle that would set Nora free. A woman was required to help another woman escape the dolls' house, an incredible affirmation
He feels that Nora's freedom is not a reality since she couldn't possibly just leave her house and establish her own identity without money. "Nora needs money -- to put it more elegantly, it is economics which matters in the end. Freedom is certainly not something that can be bought for money. But it can be lost through lack of money." (Found in Schwarez) In short, whatever were the reasons
character Nora transformation Doll House play. Nora Helmer Nora Helmer is the archetypal housewife in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and she initially seems perfectly happy with her position. She enjoys the way Torvald teases her and the fact that she is close to individuals who actually care for her. However, she slowly but surely demonstrates that she is much more than the innocent and unknowing individual that Torvald considers her
Ibsen's side note is a remarkably astute and honest appraisal of the realities of patriarchy. The statement was certainly true of Nora and her society. Even as she tries to negotiate some semblance of power in the domestic realm, the barriers to women achieving genuine political, financial and social equality are too entrenched in the society. The central theme of patriarchy is played out through the motif of the doll house
Ibsen's a Doll's House as Modern Tragedy The most powerful and lasting contributions to the literature of a given era are invariably penned by bold thinkers struggling to comprehend the ever changing world in which they live. Spanning the 18th and 19th centuries, the European Modernist movement, which was propelled by the authorial brilliance of authors and playwrights such as like the Norwegian Henrik Ibsen, was shaped and inspired by the
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