Doll’s House

In his play, “A Doll’s House,” Henrik Ibsen shows a marriage built only on appearances, and not love. Both Nora the wife, and Torvald Helmer the husband, pretend they are in love throughout the story. However, love should be patient and kind, and their love is anything but that. Nora treats her husband as a father figure. Her feelings towards Torvald are more about dependence than love. Torvald treats Nora like a child or a pet. He gets very angry and frustrated with Nora, and he does not truly love her. True love is perfect, not angry, controlling, and dependent as Nora and Torvald are to each other.

Throughout the story, Torvald is constantly angry with Nora. He also tries to control everything she does. At the beginning of the story, Torvald accuses Nora of eating sweets. He says to her, “ Surely my sweet tooth hasn’t been running riot in town today has she?”(Ibsen 611). He continues to pester her after she denies