Act 2

In Act 2, things start to heat up and you're not sure exactly what will happen next. You would think Nora would be very faithful to her husband. During this act, Nora, being a coquette starts flirting with Dr. Rank! That is definitely something intolerable, especially because she is a married woman. She shouldn't use other people in such ways to try and solve her problems. In my opinion, she would be much better off just telling her husband the truth herself and explaining to him every detail. Seeming to be such a man of refinement, he would probably understand his wife.
Krogstad finally goes back to Nora's house, confirming that he has been dismissed, and is very upset at this. If Krogstad wants to start a new honest life, black mailing someone should not be a part of it. That is cold hearted and would only make him more disresputable.
In this act, Nora gradually realizes what she has done wrong, and begins to think that she is corrupting her family, especially her children. She avoids being near her children because she feels guilty. Although Nora feels this way, those kids are still her children, and she can't just ignore them. If she doesn't want to corrupt them then she should tell the truth! Nora plans on committing suicide, but that isn't the best decision to make. It's not a well thought out plan, and it's quite selfish of her if she kills herself to save her from her troubles. Torvald needs to be more aggressive and shake the truth out of Nora.

Act 1 Post

Act 1 was a very interesting act. It was not a frivolous scene at all, and indeed included many important details. The wife of Torvald, Nora, seems like a woman oblivious to the world. She's always squandering about in the house just following her husband's orders. In these days, there are very few women who act this way. Mr. Helmer, trusts his wife very much, and believes that she does everything he says, and would never lie to her. This is ironic because he is living his life unaware of all the lies surrounding him already.
Now, the marriage of this couple would have been perfectly fine, even if their was a secret. Although Krogstad, the man who lent Nora the money ti save his husband's life, interferes with everything. He blackmails Nora, and this, in my opinion, is shocking since he himself has forged a signature in the past. I would think that he would be more lenient on Nora, but I guess this is the drama in this play, and this will make this play quite intriguing.

First Post!

I'm Angela Duenas and I have enjoyed my English class this year very much. It wasn't as stressful as I thought it would have been and was pretty easygoing, which is why I enjoyed it. We also learned about Caesar, and watched interesting videos that pertained to what we learned in class, such as the Mean Girls clip relating to Caesar, and the Simpson's parody of The Lord of the Flies. Currently, we are working on a play called, "A Doll's House." The author of this play is Henrik Ibsen. Henrik Ibsen is a Norwegian play wrighter, and director. He was considered as one of the "Four Great Ones."(http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ibsen.html)
Henrik Ibsen had always dreamed of becoming an artist, taking after his mother who was a painter and a theater lover. Ibsen and his family weren't very wealthy, they actually lived in poverty. "A Doll's House," probably somehow relates to his life when he became poor. Ibsen had to move to a farmhouse, which wasn't much. He had to give up on the Altenburg Manor, which he might have cherished as a child. His old home could have been the doll house in his life. It could have been the house he loved and never wanted to leave, but he had to because of financial issues. Based on this knowledge, the play "A Doll's House," may include someone having to leave their home behind.