a dolls house

The play “A Doll’s House”, to my understandings is viewed as a typical gender role. For example, Nora is a typical house wife who buys materials for the family. As for her husband Helmer, he is a typical man who has to provide for the family. Helmer has to work to provide food, shelter, and money for he’s family.

I also noticed that the play has to deal mostly about money. How important money can be for a family and also for an individual. unfortunately, Nora, personally through my understandings, has an addiction to money. She can’t stop thinking about money. The play basically opens up with her begging her husband to give her money to continue shopping. It seemed as if she was with her husband Helmer only for the money and not for love. Meanwhile, Mrs. Linde had to work to maintain her mother and her brothers all by herself since her mother couldn’t support herself and her brothers were to young to work. Now she trying to find a job to be able to support herself since her mother had passed away and her brothers had grown up to the point where they are able to support themselves.

1 thought on “a dolls house

  1. Those are the basics of the play but you should talk about the relationship between Nora and Helmer or Nora and Ms. Linde. If you noticed Ms. Linde could almost be where Nora could be in the future after leaving Helmer. As for the relationship between Helmer and Nora do you think that they have what is considered a typical marriage?

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