Doll's+House+Activity+-+theme+analysis

Honestly, I think I could have done a much better job on this essay. I probably could have been a bit more detailed when explaining the main points of my essay. I can tell that this was written when I wasn't as educated as I am now, thanks to my wonderful English teacher, Mrs. Boubouheropoulos.

In the play, __A Doll’s House,__ Ibsen introduces the main points of a common family with many Victorian ideals in the late 1800’s very thoroughly. One of the main characters of the play, Nora, is described as a fun-loving cowardly woman who can often be a little thrifty with her husband’s money. Torvald, Nora’s husband, has recently been given a very generous promotion at the bank that he had been working at. With his new position being as respectable as it may be, Krogstad, a once good friend and current employee at the bank, was in danger of losing his job. So in a cry for help, he goes to Nora pleading that she might be able to persuade Torvald in to not firing him. Nora tried to tell Krogstad that Torvald will not allow it because he has already promised the job to Ms. Linde, a friend of Nora’s, but he will not take no for an answer.

Since Krogstad desperately needs this job, he decides to threaten Nora by saying that if she doesn’t talk to Torvald, that he will tell him that she borrowed money from him to pay for their trip to Italy, Nora knew that she couldn’t let Torvald find out about her past. Because Nora is so confused with everything, she decides to leave Torvald and her family in a very awkward, cowardly way. Before she left though, she was beginning to realize that she wasn’t being treated like an adult by Torvald, so with that and the fact that she needed to cover her past, she decided that she really did need to leave her current life and family so she can maybe start a new.

The unique side of this was that back then an evemt like this taking place in the area where they lived was very rare and unheard of. This is whats made Ibsen’s play, __A Doll’s House,__ so new and interesting. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoy a very original theme that has been preserved in this time.