Despite the sacrificial role of Women and the parental obligations that come with this role, Our Men will always want to take the upper hands and be in control as clearly seen in this play. Nora does so much to please Tarwold but she gets treated like a doll to be played. She puts on a show throughout the marriage and pretended to be someone she is not. Nora fights so hard to fulfill her role of a good wife, she eventually free herself through her rebellious act. Krogstad exposing her lies actually led her to self discovery.
Tarwold treats his wife like a child rather than a wife by positioning himself as her Savior, even wish he could find himself in a position of saving Nora's life in a dangerous situation. I see him as weak. He is easily threatened by Krogstad over his friendliness and familiar behavior that he fires him from work. Tarwold is so preoccupied with his image and he will do anything to save his own face.
Krogstad is a despicable character who justifies his wrong actions and blames others for his bad behavior, he actually blame Mrs Linde for his misfortune. Women in this play are seen placing their family interest above their personal needs. Nora forged her father signature to obtain a loan that will help her ego centered husband, Mrs Linde married a rich man instead of her true love for financial gain.
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The male domaniance is very prevalent in this film. Women had their place to be sudordinate to their husbands. Nora did the best she could do to protect her husband. Nora sacrificed it all to save her husband and was judged by him. She ultimately woke up and walked out of his life to find herself. The only problem I had with that was her abandoning her children.
ReplyDeleteHelen I agree with a lot of what you say but I would like to point out that Nora was happy in the marriage being treated as she was. It took him being abusive to leave. He did degrade her at the end and no one should have to deal with that sort of torture.
ReplyDeleteIn finding herself she may realize that in a marriage there are different strengths and weaknessess that each partner play.
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