Examples Of Lies In A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen

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3 Lies Told By Nora In the play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, the main character Nora throughout the play tries to be a devious person and sneak around with a bunch of lies. Some of her lies are to Torvald about her eating habits, random visits, and money issues. The first lie was that she told Torvald that she has not eaten any macaroons on Christmas when he asked her if she did. As Torvald says in the book “Hasn’t Miss Sweet Tooth been breaking rules in town today?”. (Ibsen 4) Nora deny’s immediately when is asked. Torvald keeps asking over and over because he is sure enough that she did. When she denied for the last time he try to act like he was joking. Torvald said “There, there, of course I was only joking”. (Ibsen 4) She lied to
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