Secrecy In Frankenstein And A Doll's House

502 Words2 Pages

In both Frankenstein and A Doll's House, secrecy plays a major role, as it becomes a central characteristic of the main characters; Victor (the main character of Frankenstein) and Nora (the main character of the play, A Doll's House). Both stories started out with the main character already having a secret. When Viktor spends countless hours alone working on creating his monster and is not telling anyone of his actions. He becomes so involved in the secrecy of his project that he fails to stay in contact with his family. Secrecy can often isolate a person from others. When Victor's creation was finished, he continued keeping the secret, even when his close friend Henry visits him. Even after the monster was responsible for Victor's brother's (Williams) death, and Justine was wrongfully executed and blamed for it. …show more content…

Eventually, Victor becomes ill from keeping this secret and Henry has to take care of him. In the play, A Doll's House, Nora borrowed money without telling Torvald, and forged signatures on the bond. At first Nora was proud that her secret was responsible for saving her husband from death. That all changed after Krogstad's visit, involving him threatening Nora that he will reveal the secret. Nora starts to feel scared, even though Krogstad visit was kept a secret from Torvald. Nora knows that the fraud she committed is a serious crime and will extremely infuriate Torvald if he were to find out that she borrowed money from Krogstad and forged signatures on the bond because does not want to upset the peace between her and her husband. When Torvald first found out that Nora hid such a big thing from him, he spouted with anger. He was alarmed and ashamed over his wife's actions. Instead of thinking what made her do these acts, Torvald starts fuming about his future and talks inappropriately to Nora. It was this reaction of Torvald that made Nora leave him and their

Open Document