ACT 2 Post

Okay. So act 2 was much more interesting than act 1 if that's believable.  Nora is just surrounded by all of the trouble in the entire act.  Krogstad begins to blackmail Nora with the forged signature that she wrote for her father.  Nora must convince Torvald to give Krogstad the position at the bank instead of giving it to Ms. Linde.  Nora becomes Krogstads little puppet and must do whatever he says.  She starts to get worried her secret might be brought out to Torvald if she doesn't do what Krogstad says.

Nora also turned into a promiscuous girl when she talks to Dr. Rank.  She says she always has time for him and proceeds to show him her silk stockings.  She gives off the wrong vibe to Dr. Rank and he then confesses his love for her.  At that point, she realizes she's make a mistake and an awkward situation has come up between the two.  Meanwhile, Nora could not convince Torvald to let Krogstad keep the job.  Krogstad then proceeded to put a letter in the mail explaining the situation of what Nora did and how she forged her father's signature.  With the dance coming up, Nora tries to distract Torvald as much as she possibly can.  Her attempts to succeed when she convinces him to help her practice her dance since she, "Forgot just about everything."

ACT 1 post

Okay. So act 1 was definitely full of a lot of drama, arguments, and blackmailing.  It seems to me like Nora is just the center of attention in this play.  She has problems with Krogstad, lies to her husband, and is a little flirt.  She just seems to cause more trouble as the play keeps going on.  Nora is also very foolish and inconsiderate.  For example, Mrs. Linde talks about how her husband left her with no children.  Nora then proceeds to talk about how she has 3 magnificent children and this and that. She did not have to say that and I believe it was pretty rude.

I believe that Nora should just knuckle up and tell her husband that she borrowed the money from Krogstad.  It may be hard to him to take in but if he were a true husband, he would understand that she did it out of care for him.  He should consider the fact that she needs him and that is why she borrowed the money to save his life.  Also, how could you possibly be mad that your wife borrowed money to save your life.  Nora is paying it off anyway and has no problems other than the fact that Krogstad is blackmailing her.  I believe all of the problems in the play with be solved if

-Nora finally tells her husband the truth.

-Torvald lets Krogstad keep his job.

-Krogstad stops being so bitter and blackmailing Nora.

Torvald stops treating Nora like such a little child.

My First Post

I’m Jeo and my favorite part of English class this year was A Raisin in the Sun because I felt like it was a really easy play to read.  Also, all of the symbols and themes made it very easy to understand the play.  This also helped out when it came to doing our research paper because it was easy to compare the struggles of the family to what I found from my sources. An easy A.

            Henrik Ibsen was considered one of “the four great ones” of the 19^th century Norwegian literature.  Ibsen would always dream of becoming an artist when he grew up especially because his mother was an avid painter and loved the theatre.  He went to and irregular school for university candidates and wrote two plays that same year.  He wrote a Doll’s house in 1879.  I believe that A Doll’s House is about a woman who gets married with someone that she shouldn’t be married too.  She realizes this and goes through pain in this marriage knowing she should be married to someone else. This relates to Ibsen because he sort of went through the same thing when the girl he likes married someone else.

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ibsen.htm