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- Analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
- Dance
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(Begins to busy herself putting the children'sthings in order.) And yet—? No, it's impossible! I did it forlove's sake. Is a daughter not to be allowed tospare her dying father anxiety and care?
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All these eight years—she who was my joy and pride—ahypocrite, a liar—worse, worse—a criminal! The unutterable ugliness ofit all! (NORA is silent and looks steadily athim. He stops in front of her.) I ought to have suspected thatsomething of the sort would happen.
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Analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

Oh, Torvald, Idon’t believe any longer in wonderful things happening. NORA.[putting on her hat]. You know very well that would not last long.[Puts the shawl round her.] Goodbye, Torvald. I won’t see thelittle ones.
Dance
NORA.Yes, I was passing by. As a matter of fact, it is something you could help mewith. Tomorrow evening there is tobe a fancy-dress ball at the Stenborgs’, who live above us; and Torvaldwants me to go as a Neapolitan fisher-girl, and dance the Tarantella that Ilearned at Capri. Foremost among them, of course, is the child of his time, the smug and loving husband Thorvald, who is thunderstruck by Nora’s declaration of freedom. Eve (who played the title role in “Parnell and the Englishwoman” on “Masterpiece Theatre” last December) gives the husband a rather dashing and lustful panache. It’s a performance that embraces Ibsen’s extended arm of sympathy, because even in the husband’s knuckleheadedness, he does in his way love Nora.
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How dreadfully sad that must be. I have three lovelychildren. You can’t see them just now, for they are out with their nurse.But now you must tell me all about it. HELMER.You are an odd little soul. You always find some new wayof wheedling money out of me, and, as soon as you have got it, it seems to meltin your hands.
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Ibsen denied that he was writing a feminist tract (“to me it has been a question of human rights”), but the play marks a watershed in the way women were represented onstage. Sexist stereotypes didn’t end after the 1879 premiere, but a consciousness was awakened in the theater as the drama was debated all across Europe and eventually throughout much of the world. It’s Christmas Eve, 1879. In January, Torvald will become president of the Stockbank.
But, perhaps—(opens thedoor and looks out.) No, nothing in the letter-box; it is quiteempty. (Comes forward.) What rubbish! Of course he can't be inearnest about it. Such a thing couldn't happen; it is impossible—I havethree little children. Still, the onstage presence of her children makes her sacrifice much more tangible--and the play even more pertinent. The idea of a woman leaving her marriage is no longer as remarkable as it was when Ibsen was writing, but the issue of what to do with the children still remains thorny.
Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House
Nora, Oh, you wouldn't understand. I will come ina moment. (MRS. LINDE goes into the dining-room. NORA standsstill for a little while, as if to compose herself. Then she looks ather watch.) Five o'clock. Seven hours till midnight; and thenfour-and-twenty hours till the next midnight.
HELMER.My dear, I have often seen it in the course of my life as a lawyer. Almosteveryone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother. NORA.Yes, dears, I know.
He received his doctorate in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism from the Yale School of Drama. A central perception driving Hnath’s play is that epiphanies of the kind that Nora had at the end of “A Doll’s House” are just the starting point for revolutions. Nora sounds like a dreamy Chekhov character when she holds forth on how the patriarchal institution of marriage will be obsolete in the next 20 to 30 years. I’m curious to see what Laurie Metcalf does with the role in New York (I’ll be reviewing her performance next week), but some of this distance seems written into the play. In picking up the argument of Ibsen’s drama, Hnath keeps the emotion tightly tethered to the intellectual journey. The result is never dryly abstract, however.
Dr. Rank leaves and Krogstad returns, asking if Nora had told Torvald her secret and telling her his ambition to eventually run the bank. He leaves a letter explaining the secret debt and forgery in Torvald’s letterbox and exits. Mrs. Linde returns and Nora explains the situation to her. Mrs. Linde tells Nora that she and Krogstad used to be in love, and asks that Nora distract Torvald while Mrs. Linde attempts to talk to Krogstad. Mrs. Linde leaves, and Nora begs Torvald to help her rehearse the tarantella.
Nora (putting on her hat). You know very well that wouldnot last long. (Puts the shawl round her.) Good-bye, Torvald.
I am not speaking of what I owe you. Tell me what sum youare asking my husband for, and I will get the money. Besides, it would have been a great piece of folly.Once the first storm at home is over—. I have a letter for your husbandin my pocket. Well, in any case, it would have been of no use to younow. If you stood there with ever so much money in your hand, I wouldnever part with your bond.
She reveals that she had expected that he would want to sacrifice his reputation for hers and that she had planned to kill herself to prevent him from doing so. She now realizes that Torvald is not at all the kind of person she had believed him to be and that their marriage has been based on mutual fantasies and misunderstandings. It seems most commonly to be the mother's influence,though naturally a bad father's would have the same result. Every lawyeris familiar with the fact. This Krogstad, now, has been persistentlypoisoning his own children with lies and dissimulation; that is why Isay he has lost all moral character.
He defended Torvald as an “honest man” betrayed by his “hussy” of a wife. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. It’s easy enough to suspend disbelief about this, until the final, plot-altering letter is delivered by Mrs. Linde, instead of a messenger. Given her role in the plot, her presence as the letter-bearer would have raised questions, but no one says a word. It’s implied that a recent sexual encounter has been a part of the process by which Torvald has “forgiven” Nora for her illegal indiscretions on his behalf. Unlike other portrayals of this couple, “Nora” makes clear that Nora will be giving up sex (this being Victorian times) when she ends her marriage.