In my reading of the first act of the play A Doll's House, it was comprised of Nora, the main character, being talked down upon as if she were a child by her husband, Torvald. The setting is Christmas time and she just came back from Christmas shopping. In the beginning of the play the audience finds out that the Helmer family recently struggled with financial troubles, but things are starting to look up since, Torvald has a new job as a bank manager. Then an old friend of Nora's comes by to visit, Kristine Linde. Nora confides to Kristine that she once secretly borrowed money from a disgraced lawyer, Nils Krogstad, to save Torvald's life when he was very ill, but she has not told him in order to protect his pride. She told everyone that the money came from her father, who died at about the same time. Krogstad arrives and tells Nora that he is worried he will be fired. He asks her to help him keep his job. Since Nora was hesitant to help Krogstad, he blackmails Nora and says that he will tell Torvald about the money if she does not.
My personal reaction to this play was that, I thought it was sad the way women were treated during this time period. They were looked down upon, they had to hide their strength in order for the mad to feel good about themselves. In the play Nora had to hide the fact that she was the one who got the money in order to save her husbands wife. Then after doing all of that she was then talked down upon.
If I were to create notes to help me remember the most important points from my reading, I would do a double- entry journal, so that I could write my reaction and make connections to the literature.
I like your personal reaction to your play, because I felt the same way too on how they use to treat women back in the days. Ti'll his day some men are treating women like they nothing and they want nothing to do with them, but they wrong. It's like they can't live in a world without women but when they have them they treating them like dirts. I like the begining part of the play. Makes e want to read it.
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