My Doll's House Ending

[Morning arrives and Helmer sets the final items of Nora's belongings in the living room. He paces back and forth eyeing each object shaking his head but no words come out. A knock is heard at the door but Helmer staves to open it. Mrs.Linde enters with a grimace face, disbelief of the results all because of her not taking back the letter.]

Mrs.Linde: I'm sor... [Cut off by Helmer]

Helmer: Don't be. I have nothing to say to her that will bring her back to me. I was an incompetent husband and wound up pushing away my family.[ A tear roles down his cheek]

Mrs.Linde: Everything will soon get better Helmer, just stay positive and give Nora some space. Nora is just over thinking too much right now and will realize maybe she is making the wrong decision.

[Mrs.Linde starts to bring Nora's items outside. After the room clears out she calls over Helmer]

Mrs.Linde: I want you guys to work things out, here is Nora's address and if you need further information to contact her I’ll let you know.

Helmer:[ Blunderly walks over to get the note and hands Mrs.Linde a note for Nora] She may not take it but this is a very important letter Nora must read.

[Mrs.Linde takes the note and exists the house and closes the door behind her]



[Mrs.Linde and Nora eventually meet up later]

Nora: I'm glad this is all ending but I feel very empty. I won’t lie to you, but a piece of my heart still stays with Helmer after all he did to me. My gut is telling me that I've been making the right choices but my heart tries to hold me back.

Mrs.Linde: [Handing over the note to Nora] He told me to give you this note, that it’s very important.

Nora: I don’t want to read it!

Mrs.Linde:[Forcing it back] You must Nora, I really think it may have something you need to see. Helmer had a very serious look when he told me you have to read it.

[Grabbing the letter, she slowly cuts a slit into it and pulls the paper out. Nora unfolds the paper and eyes the words and suddenly drops the paper capriciously. Nora storms off and Mrs.Linde chase after her.]

Nora: Oh no! This can’t happen. It must not!

[Nora arrives close to the house to hear a piercing sound shoot into the air. She stops and her body freezes. A few minutes pass and oncoming sirens are heading towards her house. She continues to the house and finally arrives to see police and ambulances outside. Pushing through the commotion around she finally enters her house to see Helmer dead on the floor holding a gun]

Police: Excuse me miss you cannot be here.

Nora: [trying to speak right but gasps to speak right] He is my husband... That man there on the floor is my husband. I left him and this is what happens.

[The body is picked up and brought into the car. The ambulance truck sirens echo the once silent sky and speeds off. Nora stands at the doorway watching the truck until it is nowhere in sight]

Nora: My husband is gone forever. I saved his life to in the end kill him and now i am completely alone. [Muttering to herself] I left him and now he has left me and I realize how must have felt. [She takes a long pause, and then sighs to herself.] Goodbye my love maybe I will see you one day in the afterlife. Maybe.

Act II- May 31th 11:59

Act II is actually beginning to make everything interesting compared to Act 1. Many secrets are being revealed in this part of the story. We discovered that Mrs.Linde and Krogstad had a thing in the past suppressed because she needed to be with another man for his money to take care of her family. Mrs.Linde originally was supposed to stop the letter from Krogstad to Helmer revealing Nora’s blundered actions. Instead, she lets the letter get to him.
I dislike Mrs.Linde because she can’t even help her friend Nora cover up her tracks. Mrs.Linde is one incompetent best friend. Her idea on thinking Helmer should find out because “it’s for the best”, maybe the wrong choice and could result into something tragic. Does Nora dare take the thought of committing suicide by the end of the story? Another question worth keeping in mind is “Will Nora and Helmer work things out and seek their old love again?”

My Act I Post

So our class has reached Act 2 in “A Doll’s House”, which seems like a pretty hectic story so far. I find myself not a big fan of the main character Nora, a woman jauntily at most moments and a nervous wreck at others because she holds a huge secret. Her actions cause much catastrophe, like for example lying to her husband, borrowing money and according to the story “Poisoning her children” because their role model has committed a crime of forging her father’s signature. Nora also has a problem squandering her husband Torvald’s money and since it’s around Christmas time she wants more money to spend.  In my opinion I don’t have a great feeling about Nora and Torvald’s marriage. Torvald’s behavior to his wife makes her seem less of a person and more of an airhead or even an animal.          
A theme I find connecting with this story is role of women. A role of women can relate to “A Doll’s House” because Nora is a women that is under her husband. Torvald definitely wears the pants in the relationship and expresses that by calling her “scatterbrain”, “featherbrain”, or even a “squirrel.” Also when the part in the story of Nora talking to her husband about doing the Tarantella and the dress she says something to Torvald like, “Aren’t you happy I’m doing this for you” and he replies “Your suppose to doing this for me.” Nora is kept to herself and is afraid to open her mouth, instead she is drowning in the huge lie she is keeping from him. A symbol of the story can give is the timing of year. For example the timing of the year can express that the year is coming to an end and that a fresh start can occur, like for Nora maybe her and her family will find a way around the situations of borrowed money, crime committed and blackmail.  

A Doll's House: 1st Blog

Hello everyone, my name is Isabella or Izzy for short, if you are feeling lazy. I currently walk the halls of Bloomfield High School as a sophomore in Miss. Santos’s English class. Do not judge my blogging, I don’t know how to blog and do not see the point of this, but I do as I am told. So far this year, the only topic I found interesting, was class discussions about stories we have read. In class, we are reading “A Doll’s House” by a Norwegian play writer, Hernik Ibsen. Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828 in Skien, Norway . His most famous plays were, “The Wild Duck,” “The Doll’s House” and “Ghosts”. Hernik Ibsen also spent several years employed at Det norske Theater, where he was involved in the production of more than 145 plays. In my opinion, the title of “A Doll’s House” has to do with a person who greatly struggles with internal and external conflicts. This may relate to the author through problems he may have faced in his own life. “A Doll’s House” may even have a deeper hidden meaning to its title.