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!
I like the second quote you added, I put that one up too. I like the way you analyzed the situation between characters. I didn't really pay mind to that I just analyzed the characters who related to me or annoyed me.
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