The play, set in a Norwegian town in the 1870s, was
made up of Torvald Helmer, his wife Nora, Dr Rank, a close family friend of the
Helmers, Mrs Linde, Nora’s friend, Nils Krogstad, a man Nora owed money, the
three Helmer children, their nurse, a maid and a porter.
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It was centered on the
married women, who at that time did not have any opportunities in a world
dominated by men. The Doll House was the
Helmers’ house and the Doll was Nora, whom her hisband viewed as naive,
careless and wasteful when it came to finances.
Nora was however not splurging
the money her husband gave her on thoughtless things but was saving it to pay
back Mr. Krogstad who had lent her money to get her husband travel abroad for
the betterment of his health when he was not feeling well. She could not bring
herself to tell her husband that she had borrowed money from a man but had lied
that the money had come from her late father. She was getting desperate as
Krogstad was blackmailing her, telling her to tell her husband not to let him
go from his job or he would expose her. The truth comes out eventually and ends
their marriage.
“No, a wife cannot
borrow without her husband’s consent.”- Mrs Christina Linde.
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