So today we read a little more of a "Dolls House". In the book i play the part of the husband Torvald Helmer, Nora's husband. We read about how Torvald dismissed Krogstad, of course without knowing what could happen. Nora goes wild because she knows what Krogstad could do. That wasn't the interesting part though. The interesting part is that after that Dr. Rank came over and Nora was flirting with him like a a guy would flirt with a drunk girl at the club. It was wild. She was telling him that she wanted him to fantasize that when he sees her dancing in the skin colored stockings to know that she is dancing for him. Nora also finds out that Dr. Rank is dying of TB. Dr. Rank then views the situation they were in as the perfect opportunity to tell Nora that he is in love with her. He does so and everything gets weird. Being that i play Torvald, i felt a little awkward having my book wife flirting with my soon to be dead best friend.
Lets see what other weird things we read in this extravagant story.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Weird people + Weird situations = A dolls house
Hello there earthlings. This is Shelbyck reporting to duty. I am here to tell you that after reading the first act of a "Dolls House" i am greatly fond of it. I find it extremely funny and interesting. I really cant wait to see what happens in the rest of the story. All of the characters have something weird to them. For example Helmer is a a little weird for calling Nora all of those foolish names, Nora is just a mess, Mrs Linde is also a mess and Krogstad is an absolute jerk. The story just keeps getting better and better.
Nora is the most interesting character. She has a bunch of weird characteristics. For example, after the conversation with Mrs. Linde the readers could tell that she is very childish, self centered and insensitive. She has herself in a very sticky situation. Sticky meaning very hard to get out of. She has borrowed money from a friend and forged her fathers signature in the contract. She tried to justify the fact that she forged the signature but the man she borrowed it from doesn't buy into it. The mans name is Krogstad, a man who works at the bank and is viewed in a bad way ever since he forged a signature and got caught. Krogstad has been an outcast because of his wrong doings and its just his luck that at the bank he works at there is someone to soon be dismissed. He feels it is him because of his previous actions. Therefore he goes to Nora and blackmails her and basically says that if he gets fired he will get her incarcerated. Nora is shocked and stressed because the money she borrowed was to save her ill husband and since he was dying she had to forge the signature so it wouldn't take long to verify. Poor Nora! What would you do if you were in her shoes?
Nora is the most interesting character. She has a bunch of weird characteristics. For example, after the conversation with Mrs. Linde the readers could tell that she is very childish, self centered and insensitive. She has herself in a very sticky situation. Sticky meaning very hard to get out of. She has borrowed money from a friend and forged her fathers signature in the contract. She tried to justify the fact that she forged the signature but the man she borrowed it from doesn't buy into it. The mans name is Krogstad, a man who works at the bank and is viewed in a bad way ever since he forged a signature and got caught. Krogstad has been an outcast because of his wrong doings and its just his luck that at the bank he works at there is someone to soon be dismissed. He feels it is him because of his previous actions. Therefore he goes to Nora and blackmails her and basically says that if he gets fired he will get her incarcerated. Nora is shocked and stressed because the money she borrowed was to save her ill husband and since he was dying she had to forge the signature so it wouldn't take long to verify. Poor Nora! What would you do if you were in her shoes?
Monday, May 16, 2011
Henrik Ibsen
Main Characters
Torvald Helmer - He is a lawyer who has been promoted to manager in the bank.
Nora - She is Torvald’s wife who is treated like a child by Torvald’s but leaves in the end because of it.
Krogstad - He is the man Nora borrowed money from to pay for the trip to Italy.
Dr. Rank - He is an admirer of Nora who has spinal TB and announces his death at the end of the play.
Minor Characters
Christine Linde - She is an old friend of Nora who comes to Nora and asks her to ask her husband for a job.
The children - Nora plays with her children and treats them like dolls.
Setting
Helmer’s Apartment - The entire play takes place at the apartment
Torvald’s study - a door leads from the stage into an imaginary room which is Torvald’s study where some off-stage action takes place.
Ballroom - This is where Nora danced the Tarantell..
The story seems pretty interesting from what i could tell.
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Henrik Ibsen
IN the entire history of literature, there are few figures like Ibsen. Practically his whole life and energies were devoted to the theater; and his offerings, medicinal and bitter, have changed the history of the stage. The story of his life -- his birth March 20, 1828, in the little Norwegian village of Skien, the change in family circumstances from prosperity to poverty when the boy was eight years old, his studious and non-athletic boyhood, his apprenticeship to an apothecary in Grimstad, and his early attempts at dramatic composition -- all these items are well known. His spare hours were spent in preparation for entrance to Christiania University, where, at about the age of twenty, he formed a friendship with Björnson. About 1851 the violinist Ole Bull gave Ibsen the position of "theater poet" at the newly built National Theater in Bergen -- a post which he held for six years. In 1857 he became director of the Norwegian Theater in Christiania; and in 1862, with Love's Comedy, became known in his own country as a playwright of promise. Seven years later, discouraged with the reception given to his work and out of sympathy with the social and intellectual ideals of his country, he left Norway, not to return for a period of nearly thirty years. He established himself first at Rome, later in Munich. Late in life he returned to Christiania, where he died May 23, 1906
Torvald Helmer - He is a lawyer who has been promoted to manager in the bank.
Nora - She is Torvald’s wife who is treated like a child by Torvald’s but leaves in the end because of it.
Krogstad - He is the man Nora borrowed money from to pay for the trip to Italy.
Dr. Rank - He is an admirer of Nora who has spinal TB and announces his death at the end of the play.
Minor Characters
Christine Linde - She is an old friend of Nora who comes to Nora and asks her to ask her husband for a job.
The children - Nora plays with her children and treats them like dolls.
Setting
Helmer’s Apartment - The entire play takes place at the apartment
Torvald’s study - a door leads from the stage into an imaginary room which is Torvald’s study where some off-stage action takes place.
Ballroom - This is where Nora danced the Tarantell..
The story seems pretty interesting from what i could tell.
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Henrik Ibsen
IN the entire history of literature, there are few figures like Ibsen. Practically his whole life and energies were devoted to the theater; and his offerings, medicinal and bitter, have changed the history of the stage. The story of his life -- his birth March 20, 1828, in the little Norwegian village of Skien, the change in family circumstances from prosperity to poverty when the boy was eight years old, his studious and non-athletic boyhood, his apprenticeship to an apothecary in Grimstad, and his early attempts at dramatic composition -- all these items are well known. His spare hours were spent in preparation for entrance to Christiania University, where, at about the age of twenty, he formed a friendship with Björnson. About 1851 the violinist Ole Bull gave Ibsen the position of "theater poet" at the newly built National Theater in Bergen -- a post which he held for six years. In 1857 he became director of the Norwegian Theater in Christiania; and in 1862, with Love's Comedy, became known in his own country as a playwright of promise. Seven years later, discouraged with the reception given to his work and out of sympathy with the social and intellectual ideals of his country, he left Norway, not to return for a period of nearly thirty years. He established himself first at Rome, later in Munich. Late in life he returned to Christiania, where he died May 23, 1906
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