Heredity and Environment in A Doll House.
In reading Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House one may find it hard to imagine how daring it seemed at the time it was written one hundred years ago. Then women were frowned upon for voicing their own opinion. Men ruled both the business and the household worlds. Men were created by their society and the environment around them. Also, people in the nineteenth century belived problems were due to heredity. .
Torvald is a man created by society. Torvald believes that a man's role in marriage is to protect and guide his wife and children. He talks down to his wife, "Nora, Are your scatterbrains off again?." Torvald also believes in what the parents do well affect the children. Torvald demonstrates these thoughts when he is commenting on Krogstad being around his children. "Because that kind of atmosphere of lies infects the whole life of a home. Every breath the children take in is filled with germs of something degenerate." When Torvald found out Nora's secret that she forged her father's signature and Krogstad was blackmailing her, he told Nora, "Never see the children either," not wanting her sins to get passed down to the children. .
In the beginning of the drama Nora was the stereotypical loving wife and mother, until she borrowed money with a forged signature of her father. When she did this she not only broke the law but she stepped away from the role society had placed on her of being totally dependent on her husband. She proved herself not to be helpless like Torvald implied: "you poor helpless little creature!" and "Nora, Nora, how like a women." Unlike Torvald, Nora does not believe that heredity is pasted through to the children. At the end of Act one, Torvald is telling Nora about how "Krogstad's been going home year in, year out, poisoning his own children with lies and pretense." I response to all Torvald's preaching, "Do you really think that would?.
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Nora's Relationships The story "A Doll House" by Henrik Ibsen is about a young woman named Nora, who is trying to cope with a secret she has kept away from her husband, Torvald. ... In "A Doll House", Henrik Ibsen uses conflict to show Nora's subservient relationship with Torvald, Nora's Hostile relationship with Krogstad, and Nora's misunderstood relationship with Kristine. ... Torvald approaches Nora as if she was his doll telling her what to do and when to do things. ... In the "A Doll House", Henrik Ibsen uses conflict to show the unpredictable outcomes of Nora...
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The Dedicated Husband Torvald Helmer is the breadwinner and foundation for his household in Henrik Ibsen's play, A Doll House. His authoritative personality that holds the family together throughout the beginning of the play is what ends up tearing them apart in the end. His initial actions giv...
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