A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House seems to convey the idea that real love can only exist between equals. There is much talk of love in A Doll's House however; Ibsen doesn’t show this real love till the end; we are presented throughout the play different forms of love: familial, maternal, paternal, and fraternal during act one and two of the play. A Doll’s House was a very controversial play during its time, it portraits the values of the rigid Victorian way of life that dominated Western Europe at the time. The characters had specific roles and social functions assigned to them. A woman was always seen as a property to men in every way, and she had a duty to her husband that was higher than the duty to herself. My would say true love is when you

His thoughts and movements are her thoughts and movements. Torvalds love for Nora is more physically than emotionally. He feels that it is Nora duties to physically provide for her husband and financially. Nora would perform immature acts such as prancing around and calling herself his sparrow or little squirrel in which Torvald would credit her with money. Torvald says to Nora after a request of money, “you can’t deny it, my dear little Nora, she’s sweet little spendthrift, but she uses up a lot of money. One would hardly believe how expensive such little creature are” (884). Torvalds shows that how their relationship is built out of the necessity of money which both most desire than they do each other. However, he worries that she will waste it on candy, pastry or something else of Childish and useless value. Nora's duties, in general, are restricted to caring for the children, doing housework, and working on her needlepoint. When a relationship is being control by one person like Torvald is to Nora; they would go to great lengths to keep that authority. Nora cries out to Torvald, "Your squirrel would run about and do all her tricks if you would be nice, and do as she wants” (909). Nora was belittling by Torvald when she as his wife do not have to little herself just to be herd by her husband. But overall, Nora's most important responsibility is to please Torvald.

Love is a powerful emotion that can only be held by those who can share more than wealth but can count that the other would give up everything even their appearance to be with them. The opposite love that Krogstad and Mrs. Linde had was that Krogstad gave up his opportunity to regain his position in society to tie the knot with Mrs. Linde. A Doll’s House was a play to show that many women everywhere were force into a marriage that one person took full control of the other person. People are the carriers and doers of love and when they miss use it for a hurtful outcome torts the other person it builds an incarceration to the