Act One

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

Act One started off pretty dry and got a little weird and corny after hearing Torvald call Nora a different animal for the tenth time in five lines. Nora is coming off as a little spoiled brat if you ask me. Nora seems like she uses Torvald for his money and power. But he doesn't know all of the stuff Nora has been accomplishing behind his back. She constantly lies to him, for what she believes to be, his own good. Things like working as a copyist, and even borrowing large amounts of money.

Things soon get heated when we meet these two interesting characters, Mrs. Linde and Krogstad. Mrs. Linde being an old time friend of Nora is asked to ask her husband for a place in his job so that Mrs. Linde can provide for herself after the death of her husband leaving her nothing but the sorrow and misery of his absence. Krogstad on the other hand is a different story. He was that special someone that Nora borrowed the money from to save her husband. But Nora is being blackmailed into helping Krogstad keep his job by telling Nora that he would promise to tell Torvald that Nora borrowed money and has yet to pay it back. Torvald absolutely HATES those who borrow money. He even comes to say that those certain people corrupt their children due to their endless lying and deception. Nora is now stuck between a rock and a hard place and now has to make a tough decision. Hopefully these next few acts reveals the fate of these characters.