Tuesday, May 25, 2010

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.

2 comments:

  1. Yeah, Nora squanders about the house, but isn't she kinda sly at the same time and not that oblivious to the world? She did manage to set up that whole money thing is Krogstad..

    =]

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  2. Money thing "is" Krogstad? You mean with.
    She may not be that oblivious to the world, but because she didn't even know that she could have gotten in trouble for forging a signature. She thought she would be safe since she did it out of love, but of course in the real world that's not how it is.

    :D

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