A Doll House essays

A Doll House essays A Doll House is a play about a young womans struggle to find her inner self. Several events have taken which has leaded her into a position that will make her or break her and ultimately change her status quo. Nora Helmer was not your ordinary housewife. My first inclination of her was a spoiled little doll that was married to very successful man with nothing less then the world to look forward to. She was blessed with a maid to make sure the house was kept up, a nurse who was like a second mother to her three children, and a newly promoted bank manger for a husband to bring home the bacon. It was apparent that her only real responsibility was to be every thing she was expected to be to keep her children and her husband happy. She did an excellent job of playing miss goody little wife and mother in her household. The image she created for herself was acceptable and moral and most of all kept her in a womans place. It was not until Nora was reacquainted with her old friend Miss Kristine Linde that the true fibers of Nora Helmer where revealed. Miss Linde was a widow whos husband left her with nothing. It had also seemed to her that Nora was carefree in the world and knew nothing of the worlds struggle and self-sacrifice. Nora, knowing that her friend had pictured her in this light unleashed her inner spirit and strength and redefined struggle and self-sacrifice. She secretly informed Miss Linde of a time that she had to go beyond her moral duties to save the life of her husband. She did this by committing the crime of forgerying a signature for a lump sum of money that was needed desperately by her husband in a time of need. Nora tells her about the sacrifices she had to make for her family and the struggle of all the odd jobs she had to take in order to pay the money back. Nora was forced to keep this as a secret from any one and especially her husband. He would never forgive No ...