The Doll House

This week we began reading The Doll House by Henrik Ibsen and we watched the movie as well in class. In The Doll House a woman named Nora is married to Torvald who has recently received a job to manage a bank. One of Torvald's new orders as a manager of the bank is to fire Krogstad in order to make a position available for Kristine, who is an old friend of Nora's. However in Nora's past she took out a loan and she forged her father's name who died a couple days before the loan was taken out. Krogstad knew this and now plans to use it as a form of blackmail in order to keep his job at the bank. However Nora has not told her husband that she did that and if that got out to the public Torvald would lose his job which would pay for all their debts. Nora's friend Kristine told Nora that she will go and talk to Krogstad to persuade him to change his mind and she does, however only if Nora tells her husband what she has done. Unfortunately Nora does not tell her husband and he finds out about her past and he then yells at her for her mistake she has made in the past. A while after this Krogstad delivered a letter disregarding they loan, and saves Torvald's career. He then apologizes to Nora however she begins to talk about how they haven't had an actual talk with each other in the eight years they have been married and then leaves him to go out and find herself and the movie ends. I don't know if I really like this play due to the fact that it is really long for how short the story lines seems to be. And the story to me didn't seem all that exciting. However I guess it can be a lesson to people and how they should never keep secrets from their spouses, and to always tell the truth.