The entire play takes place in this single set that represents the living room in a middle-class family flat” (432). As was pointed out by Jakovljevic (2002): “Ibsen’s family drama is set within the space of perspectival constraints. Therefore, it comes as not a particular surprise that the action in A Doll’s House appears spatially limited. The earlier provided outline of the plot points out what can be considered the first indication of the play’s dramaturgic uniqueness – the sharply defined dramatics sounding of its themes and motifs. Nora says good-bye to Torvald and her children and embarks upon the quest to find her lost sense of identity. After having realized it, Nora decides to leave Torvald, who, in her eyes, has been downsized from a respectful head of the household to a regular moralistic hypocrite, unable to appreciate Nora in a way she truly deserved. It begins to dawn upon Nora that her staying with Torvald may very well be compared to the stay of a bird in the cage. Torvald’s behavior opens Nora’s eyes to the fact that she has been loyal to an unworthy man who was unable to address life’s challenges and for whom the continuous observation of social customs meant so much more than ensuring his wife’s happiness. In act 1 of “A Doll’s House”, he ends up accusing Nora of moral depravity while suggesting that under no circumstances should Nora have considered keeping secrets from him. Eventually, Torvald finds out about Nora’s forgery and becomes enraged over his wife’s presumed infidelity. When being faced with the prospect of losing his job in Torvald’s bank, he threatens to blackmail Nora (because of her forgery) if she does not convince Torvald to refrain from firing him. Krogstad is another important character in “A Doll’s House” Initially, he is a loving husband, who affectionately treats Nora, even though he also appears to be utterly ignorant of Nora’s basic humanity – throughout the play, Torvald treats her as a pretty but soulless doll. Torvald is entirely unaware of the forgery that had taken place. Nora Helmer is a married woman, who helped her husband Torvald Helmer (bank clerk) once by borrowing a large sum of money from the bank, after forged her dad’s signature. The legitimacy of such our hypothesis can be explored with the play’s synopsis. Ibsen never ceased being aware of the fact that the extent of play’s realistic sounding demonstrates the degree of presented characters’ intellectual flexibility, extrapolated in the particulars of how they address life’s challenges.Īs Kaufmann (1965) put it, “ knows that truth never is a possession, but a constant effort to find the appropriate response to every situation which demands a decision” (22). There are reasons to believe that the realism of this particular play reflects the actual workings of the author’s analytical mindset.
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