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Act 3 alternate ending

After Nora left her very controlling husband, she had decided that after spending 8 years with a man that was a stranger to her that it wasn't worth it. As she began one final gaze at the main hall, she had called her three children and asked them to pack their bags.She had told Torvald that her and the kids will not be returning home. Torvald begged her to please stay and that he'll treat her and the kids better. Nora told him that she needs to find her way and that she needs to be independent without him. Deep inside her she felt sympathy for him but quickly brushed that feeling away, sternly he looked at her and said if you leave it would feel like a knife in my heart. Soon after her kids came walking in with their bags they began to ask their mother why were they leaving and she told them very calmly that they were going away for a while.  Torvald then thought that if had shown his wife some more respect none of this would of happened,  in his chest he felt deep sorrow and regret. with one final glance, she walked out with her children and while in the distance heard Torvald calling her back. Three years later: Nora and her children had traveled around the world and wound up in America. Nora managed to get a job at a local newspaper in New York and provided her children with a proper education. Torvald remained back home and managed to keep a normal life without her.

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Act 2

Once finishing Act 2, Nora is acting jauntily because she thinks that the lie she’s hiding won’t get out. I feel that Nora should keep people out of her situation because putting more people into it could make the outcome much different, for instance when she gets Mrs.Linde involved with collecting the letter so Torvald can’t see it. It’s almost intolerable because Nora thinks that Krogstad won’t show Torvald the letter even when she’s being blackmailed by him. Nora also tries to mess up the tarantella purposely to have her husband teach her again while Dr.Rank is there. Sometimes I wonder if she thinks that the lie would disappear and that she could forget about it. I say this because it’s putting Nora in a great state of hysterics and its making her imagine things and hear things. Also, sometimes you think that you can hide beyond other people but you can’t because the truth could come out still.

Lastly, Nora lying is showing that she can’t go and tell her husband herself and has to rely on other people. Also, you should not tell anyone else about the lie because you could tell a person who could accidently tell and not realize it. You should tell the person right off the bat so it doesn’t spiral out of control. Nora in my opinion should have been honest.

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I have felt that after reading Act 1 that Nora’s husband Torvald   treats her like a younger sibling than a wife. Throughout the entire act he refers her as pet names, “Has my featherbrain been out wasting money again?” (pg. 148) and I learned that he doesn’t like spending a lot of money or even borrowing it. Nora has a constant struggle between telling her husband a huge secret and how she manages with the lie, which physically and emotionally hurts her. In my opinion, Nora should have told Helmer a long time ago, but if she holds it in any longer the truth is going to come out eventually. I can also relate this through text to self because once I had held in something for so long and I realized after a while it really affects you. I now know that if you have an issue its best that you let someone know right off the bat. Another quote that also describes Helmer and Nora’s relationship is when he suspects that Nora has been to the bakery, “Didn’t little sweet-tooth just look in at the confectioners?” (pg. 151) After I learned that Nora likes macaroons and that she denies being there even though she was.

I was also introduced to Krogstad who is a bank manager that frequently visits the Helmer’s. I also learned that he forged his signature on a bank note just as Nora did to save her husband’s life. Torvald says in response to what he did was “In a house like that, every breath that the children take is filled with germs of evil.” (pg. 179) and if Nora was to tell her husband what she did in response to his actions she could put herself in a lot of trouble. At the end of the first Act, Nora doesn’t trust herself around her children. I also have a few questions, what Nora did to save Torvald was the only way or was there other methods? And, Did Nora really understand the consequences of forging her signature and working a side job that her husband didn’t even know about? But overall I felt that reading this I really enjoyed the play so far.

Hi its Catherine, Some of the things that I enjoy in English class are doing group discussions because you’re able to hear each person’s opinion. Without the group discussions you won’t hear what peoples opinion is and it helps you with talking in front of a class.  Also, I think that having an option to do group or pair work is better because it allows you to ask you partner a question with a problem and you both can figure it out together. This also allows you to complete the classwork much faster with little stress.

 

Henrik Ibsen the author of “A Doll’s House” was born on March 20, 1828 in Skien, Norway. Henrik was the youngest of 5 children, his father was a successful merchant and his mother was a painter, loved going to the theater, and enjoyed  played the piano. Ibsen had shown an interest at a young age to become an artist. He spent much of his time as a youth reading, painting and performing magic tricks. At the age of 15, Henrik stopped going to school and went to work, he got a job as an apprentice at an apothecary in Grimstad and spent six years there. In 1849, Henrik wrote his first play Catilina which was modeled off of his great influences which was William Shakespear.

 

Henrik left Norway after being exiled in 1862 and settled in Italy for a short period of time. While there, he wrote Brand which was a five-act tragedy. In 1868, Henrik went to Germany and wrote A Doll’s House. The main character leaves her family to find her true self, also I believe it could be about an event that had occurred in Ibsen’s life that significantly affected him. The theme of the play would be seeking equal rights in marriage and that women are just as equal as men.

Henrik died on  May 23, 1906, Oslo, Norway.

 

 

Sources:

 

http://www.biography.com/people/henrik-ibsen-37014

 

http://www.shmoop.com/dolls-house/themes.html

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Doll%27s_House