Get premium membership and access questions with answers, video lessons as well as revision papers.

Write an essay to show that appearances can be misleading. Draw your illustrations from Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.

      

Write an essay to show that appearances can be misleading. Draw your illustrations from Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.

  

Answers


Martin
Introduction

Indeed, appearances can be deceiving. In A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, some characters portray naivety yet they are not. Others look harmless yet they are capable of blackmail.

Illustrations

Appearances can be deceiving. Nora appears naive and helpless. Her role in the home is taking care of the children and her husband yet she is very intelligent. She takes a loan secretly and women are not allowed to take loans without their husband's consent. She forges a signature so that it looks like her father signed the bond. What Torvald

does not know is that Nora takes a loan and to pay for his trip to Italy to save him as he is very ill. Nora makes him believe she also wants to go on a trip. He believes the money came from her father. What he does not know is that Nora deceived him.
Torvald thinks Nora is a plaything and is expected to be a wife and a homemaker. When she tells Torvald she is leaving him, he tells her she is deserting her most sacred duties of being a mother and a wife. He does not realize that Nora is awakening and taking back her independence.

He still thinks her as naive. She even tells him to shut up as she talks. She takes charge of the situation for the first time since she got married

Krogstad is a friend to Nora and helps her secure a loan only to blackmail her later. He wants her to ask Torvald to retain him at the bank the will tell him about the loan Nora took. He wants to retain the bank job to help him repair his reputation which had been damaged because
Torvald is confident but, when he learns of his wife's secret letter, he blames her. When a second absolves them of the debt, he tells her they will live together but only for the public. When she tells him she is leaving, he begs her as he always thought he had power over her. Nora takes back the power that Helmer always had taken from her.
Dr Rank is a loyal friend of Helmer, but the whole time he is in love with Helmer's wife, Nora. He is loyal to Helmer though and retreats when Nora does not seem interested in his love.

Conclusion

It is evident that appearances can be deceiving. Nora is not as innocent as Helmer thinks, Krogstad is out to blackmail Nora for his own good yet he at first pretends to be her confidant. Nora looks like she cannot leave Helmer but she does it so easily to Helmer's shock.
marto answered the question on August 27, 2019 at 07:14


Next: 'Things are not always what they seem.' Using evidence from The Pearl by John Steinbeck, show the truth of this statement.
Previous: Simplify the following expression.

View More English Literature Questions and Answers | Return to Questions Index


Learn High School English on YouTube

Related Questions