A Doll House

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Question 1 . What is the point of the macaroons at the beginning of the play ? What do they symbolize

The macaroons are sweets that are forbidden for Nora to take . According to Torvald , it will destroy her teeth . It is obvious in the play that Torvald adores her wife because of her beauty . She calls her many adorable names like my darling , skylark and squirrel . He was tolerant of her little weaknesses like Nora 's excessive

spending . He was proud of her beauty and talent to many people and loves their admiration for her In addition , he loves when Nora performs the tarantella . Nora was like a treasured object that he loves to parade in to boost his already refined ego . And Nora , for her part , obligingly performed for him endeavoring to him . For Torvald , Nora was perfect to be love she was beautiful , fragile and gentle . Nora 's act of eating the macaroons against her husband 's wishes says a lot though . It means that in the eight years of marriage she is beginning to assert herself that she is beginning to take the first step to freedom . What to eat or not to eat is a very simple choice in life and Torvald 's act of forbidding her to eat the macaroon (representing a simple choice of life that can be done independently without the interference of others ) only means that even with simple choices in life Nora was restricted to make . But now Nora wants to exercise to decide for herself . Eating macaroons was an act of defiance , an expression of the desire to be freed from the control of others . It seems that she had slowly awakened to the importance of duties to herself , to investigate whether what people said is true or not . Her husband 's words , as well as that of her father and others , had become the basis of her own opinion in life . In fact , Nora was even confused whether she really had any religion at all for she never had tried to investigate the truthfulness of what religion says . In short Nora had grown to be a woman who had no opinion of her own , she was only a doll for her father and husband to control (Meyer

A Doll House - Big picture

Question 4 . Why does Ibsen include Mrs . Linde and Krogstads eventual romance ? How does their relationship comment on Nora and Torvalds ? Be specific . The romance of Mrs . Linde and Krogstads provides a striking contrast to the romance of Nora and Torvald . Mrs . Linde and Krogstad 's love story was at first tragic , for Mrs . Linde had jilted him for another man in exchange for money . This had ruined Krogstad 's life so that he ended up a man of low moral principles . Yet , in spite of what Mrs . Linde did to him , he still regarded it his good fortune that Mrs . Linde had now...