Doll House

Thesis Statement: Nora feels that her and Torvald life together is not have the most “wonderful thing” because he does not treat her as a wife, but as a doll. Torvald does not show her the unconditional love that she would show him. Torvald will not allow her to know who she is and what she wants.

I. Nora is naïve about her marriage and about the world outside of her “perfect” home.

a. She is a wasteful spender; her husband and friend has told her

b. Nora believes that true happiness with her family will be when they are wealthy

c. Nora tells a like in order to take a vacation with Torvald; a vacation she feels saved his life.

II. Torvald treats Nora as his prize pet and his personal doll

a. He gives her patronizing pet names that are not flattering to a wife

b. She plays along with the father/daughter relationship with Torvald that should be a Husband/Wife relationship

c. Torvald is very controlling of what she eats and how she dresses.

III. Nora’s revelation

a. Torvald turns on her when he knows her lies and calls her terrible names. He then forgives her all in the same breathe

b. Nora does not know who she is or understands the ways of the world. She feels she has left the control of her father and moved on to the control of Torvald

c. Nora feels her marriage and her life is not the most wonderful thing. She must leave her husband and children in order to find herself.

“A Doll’s House-Nora’s Epiphany”

There are many plays that start off slow but gradually become captivating; “A Doll’s House”, by Henrik Ibsen, is one of those plays. In the first act, Nora appears to be self-absorbed with what will make her happy. She believes that everything she does is for the love of her husband and her children. She does not see the harm in anything she does, as long as it is for them. It is intriguing how the main character has an epiphany about her life in the end. “Nora (looks steadily at him and says with a growing look of coldness in her...