A Doll's House, in my opinion is a
tragedy of sorts, but it is a result of the people of the time. The society is
male-dominated and though Nora's behavior seems sometimes comic in its ridiculous
nature, she is actually simply playing a role (like a "doll") in order to get what she
wants and, in a real sense, absolutely needs: money to pay Krogstad's
I.O.U.
Nora leaves her children at the end and goes into an
uncertain future. She knows she can not care for them, but regardless of the situation,
a mother leaving her child is unnatural and hard to comprehend in any society, though it
happens all too often.
I would say this play is sad: the
family is destroyed and Nora has no idea of who she is or how she will survive.
(Kristine has already described the horrors that a single's woman's life, trying to
survive alone in a man's world, will hold for her.) Torvald has no clue, but this has
been the case through the entire play. Even when he finds what she has done—only to save
HIS life—all he cares about is his reputation. He is, of course, a product of his
society, but in any age, there have always been people who have lived outside the
confines of society to do great things.
For example,
Ghandi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr., are only a few examples: they could
have stayed where society expected them to, but each chose to take a different path that
confounded some, and enraged others. And thank God they did
so.
Unhappy and tragic: that is how I see "A Doll's
House."
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