Act III Post

Nora leaves and temporarily lives with  Ms.Linde until she finds out what will be the next step in her life.

Ms. Linde: Nora, I am so proud of you!
Nora: I finally realized how tumultuous this marriage has been,
(Nora tears  an smiles of happiness)
Ms: Linde:  It was the correct thing to do. He treated you like a child and he thought of you as an incompetent human being. That your position was just to be home with your children. You must prove him wrong.
Nora:  Yes, how I wished I had the bravery to leave earlier. But now I will educate myself and continue working at the printing press office until I find something more efficient.

A long time has passed since Helmer and Nora's break up. Nora has been very succesful in her education and work force. She meets a wonderful man , Ronald, who treats her right and supports her.

Ronald:  Oh Nora! I no longer can keep inside how strongly I feel towards you. I love you Nora , your such a beautiful and independent woman, how I would love to have you here by my side forever.
Nora: (shocked to hear this ... She smiles).  This  is shocking yet ravishing to hear from you! For I have felt something strong for you as well. You have treated me with respect and supported my ideas and anything I've tried so hard to achieve. Your the man I have been looking for all these years.

Helmer finds out of this lovable and unperturbed relationship. He goes in search to speak to Nora.

Helmer: (expresses angrily) How dare you feel more superior to me just because you are working. Your relationship with Ronald disgusts me! You must end that relationship and return to the house now!
Nora:  (laughing at his suppressing attitude) You are no one to tell me what I must an mustn't do. I  left you Torvald and I will never return to you. You haven't changed and you never will! I am happy with Ronald , he is a real gentleman, who treats me as a women something you have never done. Goodbye Torvald.

Nora  doesn't ever hear about Torvald  and moves on to something better. A better life with Ronald by her side. She is very happy and there is no looking back but moving foward.

Act Two Post

Act two has been full of surprises and confessions. As we can see Nora is very desperate and doesn't know what to do. What is her best alternative for this excruciating situation? Although Nora is married to Helmer it is very clear to us that she has a very close and flirty relationship with Dr. Rank. I don't understand how she didn't expect it possible for him to be deeply in love with her. Haven't you been flirty all along and made him feel something deep and farther than just a friendship? However she does confess to him ,(page 196) "You see there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with."  I thought this expressed a deep feeling towards him and how special he is but also showed a boundary.

When Nora turned to Dr.Rank for his help I was surprise at the the outcome.  It wasn't surprising finding out his jauntily love for Nora because of their flirty actions towards each other. Although, I was surprised Nora didn't go on and ask him for the favor she needed . He mentioned ,(pg:195) "Well at any rate you know that I'm at your service body and soul. So wont you say what it is?" So why didn't she just go ahead and tell him , he would've helped for a fact. This made me conclude that Nora didn't want to play with his feelings and that after all she isn't a women anxious for money, even in the circumstances now.

Act One Post

In a Doll's house, there are lot of things going on and as we keep reading we keep finding out more and more things. In Act One, you can immediately acknowledge Helmer’s attitude and beliefs towards Nora and other characters. As we can see he treats Nora like a little girl and controls her. However, he expresses a strong belief against lies and the idea of borrowing money. There are two quotes that caught my attention when reading that I must give my insight upon. Helmer says to Nora, “My little song bird musn’t ever do that again. A song bird must have a clear voice to sing with, no false notes”. When he says this to Nora he is referring to her frivolous lie about Krogstad seeing her earlier at the house earlier when he saw him leave. Helmer clearly shows how he dislikes Nora lying about anything and that he wouldn’t appreciate her doing it.

            The second quote is “Because an atmosphere of lies, like that, infects and poisons the whole life of a home”. Helmer incredulously expresses this thought to Nora about Krogstad’s deceitful act of forging. He shows such disbelief and is disgusted of how he is able to actually lie to his family. He mentions that he is probably that way because of his mother’s bad upbringing. He says that it’s a mother who influences or corrupts their children. This worries Nora because she realizes she is all tangled up and is now seeing her husband’s true feelings about certain matters that she is actually involved in. I am anxious to find out how Nora will get out of this situation. For the truth is always revealed sooner or later!

First Post

            Hi everyone! Well my name is Johanna and I am part of the fifth period English class. So far English this year has been passing by quick and hasn't been bad at all. I've enjoyed most of the many things we have done by far this school year. However, what I've linked the most in English class is reading stories , relating to them, and then reflecting upon them. By doing this it has given us the opportunity to express our ideas and opinions. Also I've enjoyed this because we learn new strategies of how to understand what we are reading and how to relate to it in different perspectives. For example, when reading The Alchemist we would take notes and then answer questions based on our reading which help dissect the story.  I also really enjoyed creating the puzzle the gave out the overall message of "The Alchemist."
            I did some research on the author of  "A Dolls House", Henrik Ibsen, and there were quite some interesting facts. Henrik Ibsen was born on March 28,1828 in Skien,Norway.  He died on May 23,1906. At the age of fifteen he felt force to leave his house due to the failure of his fathers business. He then worked as a pharmacist's assistant for about the next six years of his life and that is where he started writing his first play. He later on left Norway and lived in Italy and Germany for about twenty-seven years. He worked at a theatre where he wrote plays that weren't very successful or they were either a failure or rejected. It is said that his plays dealt or were about real life problems with individuals and other conflicts in society. Based on some of the things I read about the author I think A Dolls house will be about a conflict between people and the way the conflict becomes bigger and maybe difficult to resolve. The reason why I believe this is because in his biography it mentions how his message across was how society hinders personal development.

Links: 1. http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Ibsen-Henrik.html#b
           2.http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen#section_1