Bgberg

Bgberg

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Erik Terluin
Inge Fink
03 October 2007
Introduction to Drama
Ibsen Journal Assignment
In Ibsen’s, “The Doll House”, Ibsen follows the classic Realism blueprint. First in realism the writer follows a Darwinist approach to his characters. What is meant by this is that their heredity and character determines their character. The female lead, Nora, is consistently referred to as being her father’s daughter. Further this is meant because her husband says that her father was lack in morals and with handling money; therefore, Nora must be bad with money and have a lack of morals. Moreover, it is a must in realism writing that the play be about the real world and real actions, not some fantasy world with unrealistic dimensions. This is done well because the play is set in a realistic setting of a middle class house with nothing over the top about it. Furthermore there is a moral conflict about what is right and what is wrong. Trying to make the reader decide if the context of an action determines if it wrong or not, and not just the action in itself. Those moral standards and actions are not innate but relative to their culture and environment. The predicament of Nora when she forged her father’s name to saver her husband’s life is the premiere moral dilemma in the story. She didn’t want to strain her father while he dying to sign a lender, or bother her husband whose health was diminishing; she borrowed the money and broke the house and land law. The dilemma is whether or not her actions were justified because of the reasons why she did them as opposed to just the fact that she broke some law on paper. Ibsen makes the reader decide if morality is relative to one’s socio-economic environment rather then innate. The reader sympathizes with the Nora character and her situation, but doesn’t sympathize with the Krogstad character when his crime was identical with Nora’s. Korgstad is portrayed as being more deceptive and snaky with his tactics against...