What does Torvald try to do once Mrs. Linde leaves? He convinces Nora to stop seeing Mrs. He makes Nora dance for him.

The significance of Nora’s comment “I’m beginning to understand everything now” is she is understanding everything about the world and her relationship with Torvald.

Torvald points out that she has no right to neglect her most sacred duties — duties to her husband and children: NORA: I have other duties just as sacred. Duties to myself. TORVALD: Before all else you are a wife and mother.

In the mail, Torvald finds that Dr. Rank has left two calling cards with black crosses on them. Nora explains to Torvald that this means that Dr. Rank has gone away to die.

The primary issue with Nora and Torvald’s marriage concerns the fact that it is not based on equality and honesty but is instead founded on deception and control. Although Torvald is a responsible husband and father, he lacks respect for his wife and views her as his possession.

major conflict Nora’s struggle with Krogstad, who threatens to tell her husband about her past crime, incites Nora’s journey of self-discovery and provides much of the play’s dramatic suspense.

Krogstad is the antagonist in A Doll’s House, but he is not necessarily a villain. Though his willingness to allow Nora’s torment to continue is cruel, Krogstad is not without sympathy for her.

According to the first definition, the climax occurs when Torvald reads the letter and angrily denounces his wife, provoking Nora to make her decision to leave him. According to the second definition, the climax occurs when Nora declares her independence from her family.

Backbone of Society Rank’s talk of moral disease and his own affliction are often cited as symbolic. He has tuberculosis of the spine. This could possibly be meant to represent the diseased backbone of unenlightened society, a society where men and women don’t live as equals.

The play was so controversial that Ibsen was forced to write a second ending that he called “a barbaric outrage” to be used only when necessary. The controversy centered around Nora’s decision to abandon her children, and in the second ending she decides that the children need her more than she needs her freedom.

Several of his later dramas were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theatre was expected to model strict morals of family life and propriety. Ibsen’s later work examined the realities that lay behind the facades, revealing much that was disquieting to a number of his contemporaries.

A Doll’s House represents a woman imbued with the idea of becoming a person, but it proposes nothing categorical about women being people; in fact, its real theme has nothing to do with the sexes.

As a play focused around the marriage between Nora and Torvald, A Doll’s House can be seen as an exploration of love and marriage, or even, more profoundly, on whether there can be love in marriage. At the beginning of the play, Nora and Torvald appear to be very happily married, even to themselves.

A Doll’s House, with its door slam heard ’round the world, is regarded by many as the beginning of modern feminist literature.

Henrik Ibsen’s well known play, A Doll’s House, has long been considered a predominantly feminist work. The play focuses on the seemingly happy Helmers, Nora and Torvald, who appear to have an ideal life.