Nora Conclusion

The Final Conversation

The final scene of A Dolls House is peerless of the most famous and hotly debated moments in modern drama, ceaselessly argued about. I make no attempt here to card for all the complexities of this fascinating scene, but at a time again Id homogeneous to offer some observations to fuel further discussion.

Torvalds behaviour once he reads Krogstads letter totally demolishes the illusion Nora has taken insane asylum in, and the lectures he delivers to Nora at the start of the scene remind us unmistakably of what a total cordial prig he is, determined to salvage what he can by duplicity and very angry at Nora for what she has done. We are right to let on what he says very offensive, especially since he makes no harmonized attempt to talk to her, to explore her motivation, to share the crisis together as two individuals at a critical point in their lives together.

[Naturally, the staging of the first part of this scene is absolutely all-important(a) for shaping our response to what happens later.



If, for example, Torvalds angry abuse leads him to hit Nora, the continue of his tirade will be very different thence from what it would be if we sense a genuine pain and alarm under his insults, if it deflates him rather than energizing him to violence against her]

At the aforementioned(prenominal) time, we need to recognize that much of what Torvald says is right. If this gets out, he will be ruined. We know enough about his society to understand that the slightest billing of criminal conduct will destroy them both (and that, we know, is so much more than just losing a job). And we have seen that for Torvald his social role is who he is, his entire identity. He has no purpose of himself outside that role. So, in effect, Nora has, in his eyes, destroyed him. We may bemoan the shallowness of his character, but we should not dismiss the intensity of his feelings or the accuracy of his perception of how society will react. Everything he believes in is in danger of being taken...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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