A Doll's House Essay

Marvin Rosenberg objects to Templeton's views on the feminism in A Doll's House. In his statement to Templeton's article, "Ibsen's Nora," Rosenberg says that, "Nora is selfish, frivolous, seductive, unscrupulous, and dumbfounding" (Rosenberg and Templeton 894). He goes on to justify this by claiming, "To get cash from Dr. Rank, she erotically flicks a pair of stockings at him-then blames him for the confession of adoration she induce" (Rosenberg and Templeton 895). This statement is especially important to Rosenberg's case because as he might want to think, it justifies his description of Nora. As readers may understand, Rosenberg uses the idea of sex, and seduction in justifying his reasoning's on the play as shown in the character Nora and

This quotation proves that Ibsen has not created a feminist play, because had Ibsen been a feminist, the play would close with Nora reaching a state of self-discovery, rather than simply escaping her problems. Nora's brain boggling personality proves to be hard to anticipate to the very end, when she decides to relinquish her duties to her husband and youngsters to focus on herself, to serve her own particular needs for individuality. Certainly, Nora easily refuses to be the "doll" in Torvald's house anymore, once she realizes that they have never exchanged a serious word in their relationship despite their discussion days earlier about Krogstad or about matters of cash. Regardless, as Marvin Rosenberg writes in "Ibsen's Nora," it is the "humanizing faults that make her so empowering;" such as how she munches on macaroons illegal by Torvald, and when he discovers the sweets, she lies: her companion brought them, or how, in response to her husband's request about the scratches on the mailbox, she absolves herself by blaming the scratches on her