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.
nora needs to find herself...leaving was the only thing that she could actually do for herself...she had to leave trovald and her children...she had been controlled her whole life and she needed to become her own person
Yes, you are right on how the husband treated Nora. The things that bother me is that she never really notice the way her husband treats her was not right. The most surprising thing that i did not expect is that she also left her children. I really thought that she would take the kids. I believe she does not want her children to suffer with her since she will have a hard time supporting her children and herself.
ReplyDeleteI agree that sometimes a person needs to be selfish and find out what it exactly means to be them. I thought it was courageous of Nora to stick up for herself after she realized that her husband didn’t truly love her, but rather just the idea of her. She was arm candy and nothing more. After this realization she decides its best for her to leave him and try and put the pieces together of herself in order to learn who she really is. Although this is a brave plan, it was not thought out at all. She left her children with her husband and although they will still be taken care of, they still are her flesh and blood and deserve to be considered. Also, during this time period, women were only allowed to work if they had become widowed and since Nora simply divorced herself from the family she would be greatly looked down upon. She simply cannot live a fruitful life without some type of security and companionship. I do not believe that she should ever go back to her husband Torvald, but I think that before leaving him she should have come up with a better plan for a fresh start
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