A Doll's House Gender

In A Doll’s House, directed by Patrick Garland, the play revolves around a loving housewife name Nora Helmer living in a high class society under the roof of her husband, her three children, a nurse and the nanny that she grew up with and takes care of her children as well. In the film, Garland shows a shift in gender roles that are embedded within the visual text for the audience to see. By Garland showing the audience a shift of men and women roles in the late 19th century through different social class in the society of Norway.
In the Victorian Era, women were divided into different social classes. High class women stayed at home while the middle and lower class women who were either unmarried or widowed becoming maids, housekeepers, or
As a man in the high class, Torvald Helmer, Nora’s husband believes that his job it to take care of his family by proving them with the finest things to make them feel contented and to treat his wife as she “depends” on him. For example, when Nora was stalling Torvald from retrieving the mails in the mailbox, she pretended to stumble and act as if was forgetting the moves to the tarantella dance, the way Torvald spoke to her, starting off in a calm manner and then becoming more harsh after every mistake. Dr. Rank, Torvalds best friend, was the idle representation of a middle class man because, in the film, he treated the female characters, Nora Helmer, Mrs. Linde, The Nurse, and the nanny as equal to himself as a man during this time period. Nils Krogstad, a lawyer who went to school with Torvald, was a representation of the lower class man. Due to the financial situation he is in because of a similar act of forgery that Nora has stated that she has done to Mrs. Linde, he would do anything to make sure he had food on the table for his family. Even though he black mails Nora for forging her