Without the reveal, the play in question lacks a key feature: drama. Though A Doll’s House retains perpetual drama because of the emotionally charged characters, this elevates especially when Nora must scramble in order to prevent her secrets from exposing. During the second act, Nora pleads Torvald to refrain from reading the letters
In A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, Nora, the wife of Torvald Helmer, share many similarities with other characters we have read about, such as the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Minnie Wright of Trifles. Other than the obvious similarities of all three of them being married, they also share other similarities such as feeling miserable within the confines of their marriages and rebelling to be set free from those confines. But while they share these similarities, they also differ, such as
1. In the play Trifles, the conflict is men versus women. While all of the men are investigating the cold blooded murder of Mr. Wright, the women are gathering things to take to Mrs. Wright as she sits in jail and awaits her fate. The men degrade the women throughout the play by telling them that they are only accustomed to being concerned about “trifles”. Even though the men are making fun of the women, they fail to realize that the women are outsmarting them at their own game. It is later revealed
In the book “A Doll’s House”, Ibsen utilizes setting, tone, irony and diction in order to display Nora’s deceptiveness and Torvald’s hypocrisy which exacerbate the discord between Nora and Torvald, resulting in Nora’s decision to desert her family. Nora continually lies in order to hide about her forgery while Torvald suppresses Nora, intensifying her superficiality. Torvald, throughout the play, is portrayed as a financial provider of the family and is a very conservative man who demands Nora