A DOLL`S HOUSE

A DOLL`S HOUSE

Characters

Nora - The protagonist of the play and the wife of Torvald Helmer.

Torvald Helmer - Nora’s husband. Torvald wants his new position at the bank, just as he wants in his position of authority as a husband. He treats Nora like a child.

Krogstad - A lawyer who went to school with Torvald and holds a subordinate position at Torvald’s bank.

Mrs. Linde - Nora’s childhood friend.

Dr. Rank - Torvald’s best friend. Dr. Rank stands out as the one character in the play who is by and large unconcerned with what others think of him.

Bob, Emmy, and Ivar - Nora and Torvald’s three small children.

Anne-Marie - The Helmers’ nanny. Though Ibsen doesn’t fully develop her character.

Nora’s father - Though Nora’s father is dead before the action of the play begins, the characters refer to him throughout the play. Though she clearly loves and admires her father, Nora also comes to blame him for contributing to her subservient position in life.

This play talks about the low status of women at Ibsen`s time, around year 1879. This play performances about is a sharp critique of the traditional roles of men and women in the area of marriage. According to Ibsen`s play women did not have the choice to choose their own destiny. They just grew up from their childhood and when they were twenty years old at least; their parents took the decision to elect their husbands in order to get a strong economic situation with no care about girls’ feelings. However this is happening nowadays in our world with the girls from the country side, where their parents just think about a man who can get marry with their girl, help her in order to study and help her family a little bit. Let say economic support. At that time, men thought they were more important than woman, also they thought women did not have the abilities in order to get their goals by themselves. If woman got her goals, it was because of man`s support.

Some ideas about feminism from the play

1. The woman should be weak and passive (because it has a lower body strength than men)
2. It follows that has been created to give pleasure and submit to him
3. The man has to use its power when looking for pleasure, but must follow the wishes it.
4. The stronger sex should, apparently, own and depend, in fact, the weakest.

"CONCLUSION: "Woman has been created to give pleasure and be subject to man."

Nowadays, times have changed as example, our new president. Our president is a woman who got to the power because of her firm decisions and her strong character. These are some characteristics about her. It represents that people can get what they desire if they really want it.