A Doll's House

A Doll’s House, written by Henrik Ibsen, is an intriguing story of a marriage that falls apart as the wife, Nora Helmer, realizes she has been living as simply a doll in her husband’s doll house. As the story begins, we learn of Nora’s secret, a loan in which she has committed forgery in order to obtain. The loan was used for a trip that the Helmer’s took when Torvald grew ill. Krogstad, the man in which Nora has borrowed the money from, blackmails Nora in hopes that her husband, Torvald, will let him keep his job. As the story develops, Nora’s anxiety grows as her husband grows closer to learning about what she has done. Throughout the story, the main conflict between Nora and Torvald is obvious, but the use of minor characters to help her develop is less evident. The use of minor characters in A Doll’s House is necessary in telling the story of Nora and how she became aware of the mistreatment she facing daily.

When Nora needed a loan to afford to take her family to Italy to help Torvald, she looked everywhere. The trip was important for Torvald’s health and knowing that he would never let her take out a loan, she tells him that her father left her some money when he died. Eventually, she loaned money from Krogstad, a banker that Torvald eventually fires. When she signed for the loan she forged her father’s signature after he passed so that she could get the money and for a while there was no suspicion. A couple months later, when Krogstad’s job was in danger due to her husband’s new promotion, looked further into the document and realized it had been forged. He used the forgery to blackmail her into convincing her husband to let him continue to