A Doll's House



A Doll's House

Dear James,

I have finally received your letter today and I am really happy to learn that you are doing well, and the most amazing thing I have discovered from your letter is that you have now started showing your interest in books and you are actually reading them. Well reading anything good is the best thing to do in the world; that is what I believe and this is the reason why books or any kind of good reading material always fascinate me. By the way, I am also impressed with the kind of literary work you chose to read…A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. I must say you have a taste. But, I believe you could not relate to the play very well because you wrote that in your point of view it was totally outdated. Let me help you my friend and tell you how, A Doll's House portrays perils of any society.

A Doll's House actually questions how relationships especially marriages are working today everywhere. It traces the journey of life and then a new start of Nora Helmer. Before her marriage with Torvald Helmer, life of Nora was ruled by her father. So she waited long for a happy and independent life after marriage. Nora did everything possible for Torvald throughout as a caring wife but for him she was just a thing that he used to call her with pet names. For instance see this sentence: Helmer. “Is it my little squirrel bustling about? (1.9)

When he got seriously ill, she did what a loving wife should do to save her husband. While doing that she had to leave the comfort and safety of home and confront the world outside. In order to sponsor a trip to Italy for her husband, as suggested by his doctors, Nora borrowed money from Krogstad and for that she forged her father's signature. It is true what she did was absolutely wrong and through illegal means, but she did that only for her ailing husband. She had to take that decision then and there. Besides Nora's love for Torvald, the fact that women were subordinate during the nineteenth century also could not prevent her from doing that. It means she was shackled, yet so courageous to break the norms of the society to save her husband's life. But Torvald had no idea about it and then when he did through one of the letters Krogstad sent to them in order to reveal Nora's truth, how he reacted was expected from any man like Torvald. He did not see Nora's intentions, but what he did see was her illegal act. He even took the children away from her fearing that she would also corrupt them. However, when he read Krogstad second letter that he has sent the bond back, Torvald was relieved but Nora was shattered. All this time he did not thought for a minute that she went through all this far only because she ...