Nora is one of the major characters in the play. Her role is to show the place of women in the society at a time when the play was written. In the nineteenth century, the gender roles were well defined as opposed to today when the gender roles are changing. I have decided to analyse the personality of Nora due to her changing character. At times she only cares about money but at times she is very loving. Her husband treats her like a child and she seems to have the character.

Nora is a protagonist in this play. Everything rotates around her. She is so happy that her husband has a new position in the bank. She is also visited by Mrs Linde an old friend. In addition, she borrowed money from Krogstad to take care of her sick husband. Any quarrel and bad thing in the play rotates around her. She is a wife, a friend and a participator in fraud.

Nora has conflict in the play. When her husband was very sick, the doctor told her that he could recover if only they moved to the south. Nora told Mrs. Linde, “It was to me that the doctors came and said that his life was in danger, and that the only thing to save him was to live in the south” (Ibsen 190-196).  Due to her love for her husband, Nora procured money through borrowing to enable them to move to the south. She procured the money from Krogstad who is now a subordinate of her husband in the bank. However, she told her husband that the money came from her father. She has been servicing the loan which explains why she is always devising ways of getting money from her husband.

When Mrs Linde visits, Nora intervenes to her husband to give her a job. Krogstad realise that he will lose his position if Mrs Linde is employed in the bank. He approaches Nora to intervene on his behalf or else he reveals about the money. At this point it comes to right that Nora had signed the loan agreement on behalf of her father which is a fraud. Krogstad threatens her that he can take her to court on the ground of fraud.

Nora’s actions portray her like a child and at times as a clever woman. In her conversation with Mrs Linde, she is very self-centred and insensitive. She seems interested in the problems of Mrs Linde but keeps on talking about herself. She even forgot to write to Mrs Linde after her husband’s death. In addition, though she realises that Mrs Linde is poor, she boosts about how they will soon have a lot of money without realising it might be hurting to Mrs Linde. In her conversation with her husband, she is called names like little squirrel,” “little spendthrift,” “little featherhead,” and “little skylark.

She has no problem with the names which portrays her childlike character. However, when the husband was sick, she was clever enough to borrow money to take care of him but also ignorant of the risks involved with borrowing. She is ignorant of the idea that faking a signature is fraudulent may be because she needs the money at all costs.  Her character is very consistent with my expectations of her roles. She is a wife in the nineteenth century with no knowledge of business.

Nora has really grown in the course of the play. At first she had no influence to the husband but she later manages to intervene for Mrs Linde to get a job. However, when Krogstad forces her to intervene on his behalf, she is unable to do so and agrees with her husband on the issue. She is strong enough to ignore the threats from Krogstad. I admire the love Nora had for her husband to the extent of borrowing so much money to take care of him. However, I dislike how she handled the whole thing. She should not have faked her father’s signature or keep the husband on the dark. Her actions backfired on her face. If it was me, I would have borrowed and after my husband is well again, inform him of what happened. The money was borrowed for the sake of his life and I expect he would understand.

Work Cited

Ibsen, Henrik. “A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen.” : Act 1. N.p., 1879. Web. 11 May 2016.

 
Do you need an Original High Quality Academic Custom Essay?