A Doll's House

Option A: A Doll’s House
By Henrik Ibsen

The scene opened up to high holiday spirits as Nora was in the process of decorating the family’s Christmas tree. This is one of the many examples of misleading appearances in the play written by Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House. A drama filled with adornments of language and visual cues, eventually faced the reality of the character’s true qualities and the real depth of their situations as the story unfolded and the plot thickened.
Nora, the main character as the “doll”, was introduced in the beginning of the play as her husband, Torvald Helmer, addressed her in a condescending yet loving way, “Is that my little lark twittering out there?” And immediately, she cheerfully replied with, “Yes, it is!” Torvald continued to speak in third person to his wife, rarely without a pet name for her to respond to just as or more eagerly than he. Nora seemed childishly happy and naïve. She was not the typical housewife ...