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MLA (7th ed.) Heckel, Sally, and Susan Glaspell. A Jury of Her Peers. New York: Susan Heckel, 1980.

MLA (7th ed.) Glaspell, Susan, Rosalind Ayres, Jean Hackett, Amy Madigan, and Sam McMurray. Trifles. Los Angeles, CA: L.A. Theatre Works, 2011. Internet resource.

Nora says that if they’re ever to be more than strangers “the most wonderful thing of all would have to happen,” that their “life together would be a real wedlock” (3.376).

In the play A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, Nora Helmer commits the crime of forgery. She signs her father’s signature to a loan document, although her father has passed away. Nora has two reasons, or motivations, for committing this crime.

Krogstad blames Torvald for forcing him back into deceitful actions. He says that he can never forgive Torvald because he wants Nora to worry.

Torvald embraces the belief that a man’s role in marriage is to protect and guide his wife. He clearly enjoys the idea that Nora needs his guidance, and he interacts with her as a father would.

Torvald is an antagonist because he is against Nora doing anything she wants to do as well as goes against her wishes.

In A Doll’s House, Torvald Helmer is portrayed as a hypocrite. He claims that he is firing Krogstad, not because Krogstad committed forgery but because he did not receive punishment in the court of law. “Many a man might be able to redeem himself, if he honestly confessed his guilt and took his punishment.”

“A Doll’s House” is not a play “about” either feminism or humanism. The play is about the struggles characters endure in their lives in the world.

Torvald is a victim of society, because he is forced by the need to fit into society’s standards and to be treated as a representative of a high social status. Torvald knows very well about the pressures, produced by the society upon him and shows his willingness to get adjusted to them.

Torvald is introduced to the audience as rather a condescending man who sees himself as superior to Nora intellectually, emotionally, and morally. He calls her with ‘affectionate’ terms like “little featherbrain”, “little squirrel”, “little skylark” and “little scatterbrain”.

Torvald calls her pet names “little lark”, “little squirrel”, and “Little Miss Extravagant”. Nora is being treated like a cute little girl and she happily accepts the epithets.

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