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[Shuts the door and sees Mrs LINDE.] Ibeg your pardon; I am afraid I am disturbing you too. Small household cares and that sort ofthing! It is you that must not be angry with me, dear. Theworst of a position like mine is that it makes one so bitter.
Money and Work
I thank you for your toast, but must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for women’s rights. I am not even quite sure what women’s rights really are. To me it has been a question of human rights. And if you read my books carefully you will realize that.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Krogstad enters, and Nora tells the children to go to their nursemaid and not tell anyone about Krogstad’s visit. It is revealed that Krogstad is the person who Nora borrowed money from. He explains that he is being fired by Torvald, and that Nora must stop this happening or else Krogstad will tell everyone her secret. He adds that he has evidence that Nora forged her father’s signature in an IOU.
Individual vs. Society
He drops a letter detailing her forgery in a letterbox outside her husband’s office. Dr. Rank arrives and is depressed, telling Nora he will die soon. She flirts with him and seems to be considering whether to ask him for money.
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Summary of A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Is a daughter not to be allowed to spare her dyingfather anxiety and care? Is a wife not to be allowed to save herhusband’s life? I don’t know much about law; but I am certain thatthere must be laws permitting such things as that.
Brief Biography of Henrik Ibsen
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You don’t understand the conditions of the worldin which you live. I mean that I was simply transferred from papa’shands into yours. When I lookback on it, it seems to me as if I had been living here like a poorwoman—just from hand to mouth. I have existed merely to perform tricksfor you, Torvald.
Introduction to A Doll’s House
Nora, resolute, says she must leave. Torvald is left alone onstage in despair. The play ends with the sound of the slam of the front door as Nora exits. Act Two begins the next day, on Christmas Day.
The crisis comes when Nora’s old schoolfriend Christina Linde arrives in need of a job. At Nora’s urging Torvald aids her friend by giving her Krogstad’s position at the bank. Learning that he is to be dismissed, Krogstad threatens to expose Nora’s forgery unless she is able to persuade Torvald to reinstate him. Nora fails to convince Torvald to relent, and after receiving his dismissal notice, Krogstad sends Torvald a letter disclosing the details of the forgery.
No, nothing in the letterbox; it is quite empty. [Comesforward.] What rubbish! Of course he can’t be in earnest about it.Such a thing couldn’t happen; it is impossible—I have three littlechildren. HELMER.It seems most commonly to be the mother’s influence, though naturally abad father’s would have the same result. Every lawyer is familiar withthe fact. I assure you it wouldbe quite impossible for me to work with him; I literally feel physically illwhen I am in the company of such people.
The unutterable ugliness of it all! [NORA is silent and looks steadily at him. He stops in front ofher.] I ought to have suspected that something of the sort would happen. All your father’s want of principle—besilent! —all your father’s want of principle has come out in you.
Henry has also successfully used various literary devices to speak about social norms and their controlling institutions. Their conversation is interrupted when their maid, Helene announces the arrival of Helmer’s friend, Dr. Rank, who comes to meet Torvald. At the same time, Nora’s old friend, Kristine Linde, also enters the scene.
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