Examples Of Childish Behavior In A Doll's House
Childish Behavior
In the play "A Doll House" Henrik Ibsen shows how being a wife and mother does not necessarily mean that one has grown up. During this play you see that Nora, a wife and mother, still holds on to her childish behaviors by acting just as a young girl would. In "A Doll House" Ibsen shows how Nora's childish behavior causes problems between her and her husband through her actions, words, and her interactions with others.
From the start of the first scene Nora's actions speak louder than words when she comes home from shopping. Her husband Trovald gives her a hard time about spending so much money saying, "We certainly don't have money to waste" (Ibsen 1080). Nora carelessly blows off her husbands remarks as a child does …show more content…
It seems Nora thinks that she is above others because of what she has. In her conversations with Mrs. Linde, Nora seems to be sure of herself when Mrs. Linde questions her about where she got the money for the trip from. "I could have gotten it some other way" Nora says, "An admirer may have given it to me. When you're as tolerably good looking as I am" (Ibsen 1089). Nora tries to justify everything that she does with an invalid excuse. In her conversations with Krogstad, Nora admits to signing her fathers name to the loan without considering the implications of the deal. Krogstad confronts Nora about this to which she says, "That trip was to save my husband's life. I couldn't give it up" (Ibsen 1099). Again Nora tries to justify her reasoning for having to borrow the money for the trip. When Torvald learns of the loan that Nora took to pay for their vacation trip he becomes enraged over this issue saying, "You have ruined all my happiness. My whole future-that’s what you have destroyed" (Ibsen 1133). During the whole play he emphasizes the importance of not being in debt to Nora. Torvald talks to Nora as a father does to his daughter. Nora was able to make an easy transition from being a spoiled daughter under the care of her father to being a spoiled wife. Therefore she never quite understood that there is a risk involved
In the play "A Doll House" Henrik Ibsen shows how being a wife and mother does not necessarily mean that one has grown up. During this play you see that Nora, a wife and mother, still holds on to her childish behaviors by acting just as a young girl would. In "A Doll House" Ibsen shows how Nora's childish behavior causes problems between her and her husband through her actions, words, and her interactions with others.
From the start of the first scene Nora's actions speak louder than words when she comes home from shopping. Her husband Trovald gives her a hard time about spending so much money saying, "We certainly don't have money to waste" (Ibsen 1080). Nora carelessly blows off her husbands remarks as a child does …show more content…
It seems Nora thinks that she is above others because of what she has. In her conversations with Mrs. Linde, Nora seems to be sure of herself when Mrs. Linde questions her about where she got the money for the trip from. "I could have gotten it some other way" Nora says, "An admirer may have given it to me. When you're as tolerably good looking as I am" (Ibsen 1089). Nora tries to justify everything that she does with an invalid excuse. In her conversations with Krogstad, Nora admits to signing her fathers name to the loan without considering the implications of the deal. Krogstad confronts Nora about this to which she says, "That trip was to save my husband's life. I couldn't give it up" (Ibsen 1099). Again Nora tries to justify her reasoning for having to borrow the money for the trip. When Torvald learns of the loan that Nora took to pay for their vacation trip he becomes enraged over this issue saying, "You have ruined all my happiness. My whole future-that’s what you have destroyed" (Ibsen 1133). During the whole play he emphasizes the importance of not being in debt to Nora. Torvald talks to Nora as a father does to his daughter. Nora was able to make an easy transition from being a spoiled daughter under the care of her father to being a spoiled wife. Therefore she never quite understood that there is a risk involved