"A Doll's House" Cause and Effect: Delusive Appearances

What effects do deceptive appearances have in people’s lives and relationships? Appearances are often adopted to please other people and to be able to manipulate them easily. These unreliable appearances prove to be the misleading veneers that mask the reality of people and situations. Many of the adopted deceptive appearances are the result of a response to a challenge, but the falsehood of them leads to negative results in relationships. In “A Doll’s House”, Henrik Ibsen intends for the reader to learn that deceptive appearances end in misunderstandings and cause negative reactions to those involved in romantic relationships.
People often adopt delusive appearances in order to please other people and to be able to manipulate them easily. At the beginning of the play, Nora plays with the buttons in Torvald’s coat, seductively, while asking him for money, she acts foolishly and dependant upon him, knowing that’s the way she likes her. She states at one point, when she is a...