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Marriage In A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen

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In "A Dollhouse" Henrik Ibsen values on marriage are honesty, trust, and manipulation he shares this in the play with a very sheltered marriage. Is it right to have these values in a marriage, is modern society okay with this? In the play there is a married couple who had money problems, during an emergency the wife Nora had to get a loan from the bank a bank bookkeeper names Krogstad, where he husband Torvald worked during getting the loan Nora forged her father 's signature. She told her husband that she had received the money from her father. After almost paying off her loan, her childhood friend Mrs. Lindel come to ask if her husband can get her a job in the bank as a bookkeeper, since he had become a manager and Nora agreed. Little did …show more content…

He knows that there is more to marriage than just having honesty and trust. Yes, honesty and trust are big and there should be some in a marriage, but Henrik Ibsen is shows that there needs to be more by making Nora the main character and expressing more how she feels. He promotes this values of having more to marriage than honesty and trust by showing us slowly throughout the play how miserable Nora really was. He was promoting this when Nora would rebel and tell her friends Mrs. Lindel and Dr. Rank what she really desired to do behind her husband 's back. He also promoted that there 's more to marriage when Nora decided she could no longer live the same way she had been living for the last eight years of her …show more content…

No, not in today 's world. Yes, having honest and trust are a big part in every marriage it is a value that everyone holds dearly. These two values are what can make or break a marriage in modern society now. Being in a manipulating relationship you may not notice it is going on until you hear about someone else 's life or they point it out to you. Henrik Ibsen in the story creates the image of when Nora realizes she is not in the perfect relationship she thought she was for the past eight years and notices that she needs to grow as a person instead of being manipulated by her

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