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.