White lies and are used to ease someone’s feelings and deception to trick others to profit oneself, telling a lie reveals clues of a person or character’s beliefs and state of mind. In the famous play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, the main protagonist Nora used deceptions and lies to protect her loved ones. Though white lies are often considered to do more good than harm, in A Doll’s House, Nora, a house wife who borrowed in order to save her husband’s life, was presented with the dilemma of going to jail for borrowing without her husband or father’s consent, or having to repay the debt all on her own in secret. Nora, as a woman who loved her husband, chose to spare her husband the stress of shouldering a major crime by borrowing with a forged signature of her father. Even though at the time such action was a crime, she had her own viable reasons to do so. As Nora has said, she did it for her husband, and not only for his health but also his pride. Torvald is a very prideful man who has always been the major financial contributor of the family, and as he became ill, he was no longer to support the family as before. Under the circumstances, borrowing money from someone else to cure his illness would be a harm toward Torvald’s personal pride, as he would never allow his family to be in debt, let alone having his wife to leave the comfortable household to work in order to pay for him. Therefore Torvald’s pride left Nora with no choice but to borrow from Krogstad and
A lie is an intentionally false statement. There are many types of lies in society which Stephanie Ericsson categorizes in her story “The Ways We Lie.” Ericsson divides types of lies into ten different groups such as the white lie, facades, ignoring the plain facts, deflecting, omission, stereotypes and clichés, groupthink, out-and-out lies, dismissal and delusion. The white lie is considered a lie that does not hurt people’s feelings. A white lie is a lie when one knows that the truth will affect another person’s feelings. Depending on the situation, Ericsson explains on how the relationship is with one another.
In “The Ways I Lie” the writer Stephanie Ericsson exemplifies several types of common lies that people use on a regular to explain that lying is more common than we think. Ericsson compiles the different types of lies into subheadings in her essay, which includes: the white lie, facades, ignoring the plain facts, deflecting, omission, stereotypes and cliches, groupthink, out-and-out lies, dismissal, and delusion. I found myself relating to more than one type of generalized lie.
Ericsson began explaining the types of lies with a simple white lie. On a regular day-to-day basis, I tend to tell more white lies than a typical person.
The story commences with an unusual action done by the protagonist. The essay suddenly begins in the middle of the protagonist being disciplined by her teacher for these actions.
The beginning of the piece grabs the reader’s attention through immediately putting the audience into the story. This is done by showing the focus of the story, the unusual obsessions and compulsions of the protagonist.
Shocked, Nora, quickly ended the attempted and noted it was wrong, the doctor then proceeded to see Torvald. Nora was too afraid to ask him for money to repay the loan and became additionally desperate to try to find a quick
Nora is a married woman and has children to take care of. She really has little freedom because of the way Torvald treats her. She is not even I feel as if deep down she knows she is not free and wants something more in her life then to be a entertaining puppet for Torvald. She realizes at the end of the story that Torvald is not good to her because of the way he acted when she told him about forging the signature. When Torvald called her a criminal and other harsh words she realized that she had no true love from Torvald and wanted to be free from him.
Nora expected Torvald to take the blame for her mistakes “When he’d done that, I was so utterly sure that you’d step forward, take the blame on yourself and say: I am the guilty one” (592). While Nora does say that she would defend her husband if he were to do so, Nora wanted Torvald to attempt to take the blame for her illegally borrowing money. She was so used to Torvald consistently taking care of her, Nora expected him to swoop in and take save her in her time of need. A husband and wife should be able to defend each other and ensure the other’s safety but even more importantly, Nora should have been able to be honest with Torvald from the
In act one, the audience learns about the secret which Nora has been hiding from Torvald: that Nora has obtained a loan from Krogstad due to their financial situation and inability to pay for their trip to Italy to save Torvald’s life. When Krogstad
A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen, it’s a theatrical play that is full of elements related to the aspect of the “typical ideal family household” and the gender’s role. In order to maintain the structure of the play and also the literature composition, the author utilize specific details to enhance and sustain essentials points of the literature. In order to obtain and develop a complete or comprehensive literature analysis of Ibsen’s A Doll House, I made a research to assist what I thought about was Ibsen’s point of view with the theatrical play.
The story began with a family portrait during Christmas festivities.
But listen to this, Kristine - I got something to be proud and happy for.” (Ibsen, 1256), This statement by Nora changes the conversation from Kristine’s troubles and accomplishments and turns everything around so that Nora can brag about what she has done. We also see Nora’s selfishness in the last act of the play when Nora leaves her family. It is understandable for Nora to leave Torvald if she no longer feels loved, but Nora decides to leave her kids
For Nora, the goal was not to simply escape her life but instead to make a life for herself that she could be proud of and live with happily. Torvald did not treat her with the respect that a husband should treat a wife by modern standards and while this might have been considered a controversial decision for the period in which it was written, by modern standards it can easily be shown as the logical way to end the
He rather expects her to be more compliant, loyal and wants her to follow the social and moral rules strictly, like he does. Torvald’s assertion that Nora’s lack of understanding of money matters is the result of her gender (“Nora, my Nora, that is just like a woman”) reveals his prejudiced viewpoint on gender roles. Torvald believes a wife’s role is to beautify the home, not only through proper management of domestic life but also through proper behavior and appearance. He quickly makes it known that appearances are very important to him, and that Nora is like an ornament or trophy that serves to beautify his home and his reputation. He tells Nora that he loves her so much that he has wished in the past that Nora’s life were threatened so that he could risk everything to save her.
A Doll’s House: Character Comparison and Contrast
Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House contains a cast of deeply complex characters that emulate the 1800’s societal norms that they belong to. Two characters that compare and contrast each other throughout the play are Nora Helmer and Kristine Linde. Nora and Kristine are similar because they both display a sense of independence. Their personalities differ as Nora presents herself as inexperienced, while Kristine is more grounded in reality.
NORA. No, Torvald, indeed, indeed!”(Ibsen 3). This quote displays how Nora was literally pleading to Torvald that she wasn’t eating the forbidden fruit (the macarons) because she feared getting into a sort of trouble with Torvald, further intensifying the parent and child aspect. Taking the play’s title into perspective: “A Doll’s House” literally, and perfectly describes Nora’s life which is basically a doll’s house. Nora is living under Torvald’s roof and everything she does is decided and controlled by him.
From the opening scene of the play “A Doll’s House”, Henrik Ibsen has potrayed deception through macaroons .By coming up with the macaroons ample of times ,the play suggests that Nora is dishonest to her husband which is one of the reasons their relationship is in trouble. As in , a man’s position in society was to take control over financial matters and money and to be in charge of his family. These responsibilities cause a lot of deception throughout the play. As Nora lies to Torvald about macaroons because she wanted him to feel in control .The macaroons could also symbolize Nora’s wish to live free and satisfy herself by pleasuring herself.
