Analysis of Doll House Play

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Title of the work

Significance of Title

 A Doll's House and the Society

 This paper is an attempt to compare the attitude of the characters in relevance to the image of the women in 19th century.

 

 

Identify

Describe

Explain Impact

Major characters

 Nora Helmer

Torvalo Helmer

 Wife of Torvald Hemer who loves her husband and family

Husband of Nora and believes in his duty to guard and guide wife.

 She went to indulging herself into unfair means to save her husband from disease.

Protagonist

 Mrs. Linde

 Nora's childhood friend and has gone through tough times that makes her sensible in comparison to Nora.

 Her own is miserable and she is down with poverty and loneliness.

Antagonist

 Krogstad

 He is not a villain yet he made Nora remain under constant stress.

 He allowed Nora a fraud check and when it came on his job security, he started black mailing her to convince her husband to keep him at the bank.

Conflict

  Nora is hiding a secret form her husband and is being black mailed for that by Krogstad.

 Nora loved her husband but for a few years they were not having enough finances. In the meanwhile Travold was diagnosed with tuberculosis and to bear the expenses of treatment she made a fraud check with the help of Krogstad. The bank due to attitude issues of Krogstad wanted to separate him and he started threatening Nora to influence her husband to save his job. Travold's job was new at the bank and he was looking forward to his role of assuming authority both at work and home.

 Nora knew if her husband comes to know about the fraud, he will never forgive her and this will end her marriage.

Climax

 When Linde goes to talk to Krogstad about not disclosing the truth about fraud to ...