Continuation of A Doll's House Ending

Children: (run towards Torvald) Father!

(Torvald looks up from the table towards his children concerned)

Torvald: My children, what are you doing up?

Children: We heard the door slam. Nurse didn't wake up, but we did, and we wanted to see what happened.

Torvald: Nothing has happened, go back to -

Nurse: Oh Sir! I'm sorry. I hadn't notice the children had left. Why, Sit you look upset.

(The son yawns and the daughter walks towards her father and sits on his lap)

Children: (whining) I want to see mother.

(Torvald tries to comfort his daughter, but ends up handing her over to the nurse's awaiting arms)

Torvald: Ummmmm... Children... (Looking at them with a worried expression, and gets up and looks towards his children) Your mother she's (thinks about telling his children that Nora left, but changes his mind) asleep and doesn't want to be disturbed. Now (commanding tone) go back to bed. (Turns to the nurse) And don't let them out till morning!

Nurse: Okay, Sir. (Push the the son with daughter still in her arms toward the door to get to the bed room)

(Torvald slumps back in the chair, rubs hands on face, then runs hands throigh hair restlessly)

Torvald: Oh Nora. Nora. Why did you have to leave me. Now everywhere I go I will be ridiculed! She was an incompetent and capricious woman, oh but I loved her! Maybe, just maybe if I get Dr. Rank to come out from hiding, he could help me get her back. Oh, but I don't think I could trust him because he loves her.

(There's a knock at the door)

Torvald: Who could that be? Oh maybe it's Nora! Oh my beloved!

Fast Forward 5 Years

Maid: Sir, there's a Mrs. Nora here to see you.

Torvald: (looks up from the table with a shocked face) it can't be! Maid send her in and once!

Maid: Yes, Sir.

Nora: (walks in, taking her outside clothes off) Hello, Torvald.

(Nora xontinues to stand as Torvald gets up and walks toward her)

Torvald: (grabbing her hands) Oh Nora, it is you! Oh how have you been my little skylark?

Nora: Torvald, I have been great! I have started my own business. How have you been?

Torvald: I've been good. That's so great to hear about you starting your own business, my little songbird. What type of business did you start? How did you finance it? Are you here to come back to me?

Nora: Oh that's great to hear you've been good. I actually started a macaroon shop. It's popular in France. That's where I've been all this time. I was able to find myself and I've fulfilled my duty to myself. Oh and business, my hus-, Dr. Rank financed it. He was able to seek treatment and survived his TB of the spine.

Torvald: Oh how wonderful that is to hear! But Nora why didn't Dr. Rank let me know he survived? And Nora stop being evasion about us.

Nora: Dr. Rank has been France with me and he was unable to contact anyone. And the thing between you and I will never happen.

Torvald: But why? I have changed I promise my little squirrel.

Nora: One, Torvald you haven't changed because you have been calling me these names, because you want me to feel insignificant. Let me finish! Second I married to someone else.

Torvald: Who have you married?

Nora: Dr. Rank.

(Torvald falls to ground and breaks down)

(Lights fade out)

Act II

       Hey there my fellow bloggers! I'm back at it again with but this time with Act II. This act has been, to say the least, interesting. From Torvald firing Krogstad, to Krogstad threatening Nora, to Dr. Rank confessing his love for Nora. This play has been twists and turns.

       To start off, I want to know what you think about the love Dr. Rank has for Nora. Dr. Rank seems to be a nice guy and him confessing his love, Nora should be jumping for joy because Torvald isn't the person she's compatible with. Come on, he says

"Dr. Rank: Nora... Do you think he's the only one?

  Nora: The only one...?

  Dr. Rank:  Who'd gladly I've his life for you?" 

(Ibsen 194).

       Isn't that sweet. Nora was intolerable to Dr. Rank's confession. Although she started to flirt with him afterwards, with hitting him with her stocking. So scandalous...  This played a role in Kristina thinking that Dr. Rank was the one who gave Nora the money even though she asked about that before this scene.
       Kristina found out that Krogstad was the person who gave Nora the money because Nora freaked out about the letter and told Kristina that the letter was from Krogstad. Kristina was able to connect the dots just as Nora confessed.

"Nora: Come here. Do you see that letter? There, look - through the glass of the letter-box.

Mrs.Linde: I can see it - Well?

Nora: It's a letter from Krogstad.

Mrs. Linde: Nora... it was Krogstad who lent you the money!"

(Ibsen 201)

       Throughout this act Nora was in hysterics from beginning to end.  Kristina being the good friend that she is, tried to help out Nora by going to Krogstad's house to ask him get his letter back without it being read. He wasn't there but she left a note. While Kristina was there, Nora tried to distract Torvald from reading the letter she pretended to not know how to dance the Tarantella. It work but after Kristina came back and told Nora what happened with Krogstad, she made a decision on what she was going to do. She decided that after the dance she was going to commit suicide. 

        This act ended with  a shock to shake the audience. Like I mentioned beforehand this act has been twists and turns, with no pause. I want to know what you thought about this act. I think that Nora committing suicide was drastic, but she is a pretty dramatic woman. What do you think about Nora. Did you think that Dr. Rank's confession was romantic or stupid? Let me know. For this blog, is now over.

This Is The Tarantella

Act I, Anyone?

Can You Keep A Secret?

                                                                                                          

Hello, my fellow bloggers! Welcome back to my blog. How did you all like Act 1 of A Doll's House?  I know that I enjoyed watching Nora go insane. Anyhoo, this blog will contain insight, analysis of the main characters, and my opinion of the plot of Act I. Let me start off by saying that this play is ridiculously great. In the beginning of Act I we are introduced to the main characters which are, Nora Helmer, Torvald Helmer (Nora's husband), Mrs. Linde (A.K.A. Kristina, Nora's friend from college), Dr. Rank (A family friend), and Mr. Krogstand (a worker from the bank, a lawyer, and criminal). Nora which the book focuses on, is a woman who has her own ideas and is strong willed but is afraid to show that side of herself. She can also be frivolous with money, which her husband dislikes. Her husband is the type of person who thinks that his wife is incapable of doing anything, so he he calls her names like feather brain. He husband also thinks that she has to do everything he says and disapproves of her doing anything he didn't approve of. Nora is only able confide in her best friend Kristina who happened to show up after years, when she heard about Torvald getting an advancement in his job. 

Nora is a woman who loves her family dearly and will do anything for them like paying to go to Capri, Italy when her husband wasn't well. She borrowed money from Mr. Krogstand to pay for the trip and has been giving amortization ever since. In order to pay the amortization, Nora did odd jobs. "Last winter I was lucky enough to get a lot of copying to do, so I locked myself in and sat writing - often till after midnight" (Ibsen pg. 162). "Nora, Nora! Just like a woman! But seriously Nora, you know what I think about that sort of thing. No debts, no borrowing. There's something constrained, something ugly even about a home that's founded on borrowing and debt" (Ibsen pg.149). Nora's husband, Torvald isn't very keen on the idea of borrowing money, but she did it anyway. She never told her secret to anyone but Kristina. Nora told her husband that she got the money from her dying father. 

 No one knows that she borrowed money from Krogstand, who is considered corrupt because he committed forgery and lied to his family. Towards the end of Act I, readers come to find out that Nora also committed forgery and if she doesn't get Torvald to keep Krogstand at the bank, he is going to tell everyone what Nora did. When Nora tries to do so her husband tells her "It's generally the fault of the mother, though of course a father can have the same effect - as every lawyer very well knows. And certainly for years this fellow Krogstand has been going home and poisoning his own children with lies and deceit" (Ibsen pg. 179). With her husband saying this, this sends Nora to degenerate.

This Act reminds me of  the story "A Problem". In "A Problem", Sasha forges an IOU and puts his family in a predicament. His family either has to pay money to save him or let him be punished for the crime he has committed. This story relates to how Nora feels. She has to try to get her husband to cooperate to get Krogstand to keep her secret or faces the consequences if that doesn't happen. This home Nora built is based on lies. 

This whole Act starts with Nora having a macaroon and hiding it from her husband. The macaroon symbolizes a sign of power for her. It shows that she has the power to keep secrets from her husband and defy his authority over the macaroon then it shows she's strong willed. Act I was filled with the basic information of how the plot will thicken. I think that everything will work out for Nora, that no one will find out her secret. I also think that her husband is pig-headed and controlling. What do you think about the characters, especially Nora. I also want to know why you think these things about these characters. Until next time, blogger out.

My First Post: About Me and Henrik Ibsen

Well hey there! I see you have stumbled upon my blog. My name is Brianna and I happen to love poetry, hence my blog name; i.e. A Poets’ Doll's House. Anyhoo, English class has been great throughout this year and what I have enjoyed the most was having Ms. Hooper in our class because it was a different experience to have had two teachers teaches during the year in one class. I have also enjoyed reading "Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe, "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho, and "A Man" by Nina Cassian. 

The author of “A Doll's House” is Henrik Ibsen, who was an exiled Norwegian playwright. Born on March 20, 1828 in Norway to parents Knud and Marichen Ibsen. Henrik was the oldest of five children and grew up in Skein, which was a small coastal town in Norway. Henrik’s childhood was colorful and had been filled with art because of his mother who painted, played piano and loved to go to the theater. At the age of eight Henrik’s family became poverty stricken because his father’s business had been suffering with problems.  The family had to sell their affluences to cover the debt and they were also forced to move to a rundown farm near the town they used to live in.

At the age of 15 Henrik stopped going to school to start working as an apprentice in an apothecary in Grimstand. During his free time, Henrik would write poetry and painted. In 1849, Ibsen wrote his first play, which was molded after William Shakespeare, and the play was called “Catilina”. Ibsen soon moved to Christiania (now known as Oslo), there he made friends who would try to help him publish his play, but failed. Henrik married Suzannah Daae Thoresen in 1858 and had a son, Sigurd. Henrik had another child with a maid who he had met when he was an apprentice. He never met his child that he had with the maid but he did provide financial support. Soon Ibsen was exiled from Norway, in which he moved to Italy and Germany. In Germany, he wrote “A Doll’s House”. After being exiled from Norway, Ibsen went back to his home country in which he wrote more plays which became successful. Henrik died on May 23, 1906.

Talk about a mess… Henrik needed to get some help to get his life together, but then again it did help him write most of his plays. His play “A Doll’s House”, might relate to his life in the sense of having a child, whom he has never known, with a maid. The play maybe based off of how he thinks she may have lived her life with his child or how his wife may have lived without him. Based off the title of this play, I think it will be about a woman who goes through life with much concern of what other people think but in the end learns that she should think for herself and not care about what other people think; she learns to live for herself. The themes and symbols this play focuses on are on sacrifices a woman makes in her life and what a marriage should be based on. This whole will be based on a woman’s perspective but written by a man which should be an interesting twist. What are your thoughts on Henrik and his writing? Leave a comment below letting me know! 

source:

http://www.biography.com/people/henrik-ibsen-37014 

Happy International Women Day!