My class has just finished reading Act I of A Doll House. In Act I it showed how easily someone can blackmail another to get whatever they want and it brought out every one's true colors. In Act I the characters are introduced and some of the characters are hiding things from one another. Nora Helmer is hiding something big from her husband Trovald Helmer and the secret she is hiding is really big and until now she has kept it to herself until she told Mrs.Linde who is a childhood friend. Nora is a show off and she loves to brag about herself and her family to others. She isn't quiet smart and she is very sneaky and thinks about herself all the time. Torvald is her controlling and very demanding husband who wants to have things his way. He is kinda cheap and he likes to control his wife's spending habits. Torvald's acts toward his wife is very intolerable because he treat her like a little kid when she isn't and I think that he should probably change his ways. Nora acted very jauntily when Krogstad blackmailed her into telling Helmer to keep his position at the bank. She acted like and she didn't want to see her children right after Krogstad left. Torvald is going to be very reproached if and when she tells Torvald her big secret. Nora is telling a very big lie when she told her husband I wouldn't do anything that you don't like when she took money from Krogstad to help pay for her husband when he was sick and needed to go to Italy to get better. Korgstad also doesn't know that his wife is paying Krogsatad payments every month so that it can cover the cost for when she took the $1200 from him and forged her dying father's signature as a co-signer for the payments. T-T just like Sasha Uskov who also forged a signature.

      Torvald keeps track of the money his wife spends and he doesn't like when his wife eats macaroons. But when his wife spends money on unnecessary things Oh, very. That is , it would be if you really kept the money I give you, and with it. But if it goes in with the housekeeping and gets spent on all sorts of useless things, then I only have to pay out again. But when Nora does spend money on useless things he always puts her in check. Mrs.Linde who is Nora's childhood friend just recently lost her husband and she has been working all of her life to support her ill mother and two brothers. She had to work multiple jobs after her passed away because his company wasn't standing very strong after his passing. So she has came to see Nora and to see if she can come and get a job and that is when Nora told Kristen that she needs a nice vacation but she didn't have the money and then Nora got very upset because she was the one who actually the one who paid for their trip. When Kristen found about Torvald's promotion she thought that it was good news for her because he can get her a new job. No, Nora, it's you who mustn't be angry with me. That's the worst of my sort of life it makes you so better. There's no one to work for yet you can never relax . You must live, so you become self centered. Why, do you know, when you told me the news of your good fortune, I wasn't nearly so glad for your sake as for my own! When Mrs.Linde said that she was being very selfish and thinking about herself because she "knew" that she was going to get a job.

       Krogstad is a lawyer and he lent Nora the money for her husband's trip and he is blackmailing Nora into telling Torvald that Krogstad should keep his position at the Bank. Krogstad has also committed a crime and that was forging signatures. Nora hasn't ever told her husband about taking the money from Krogstad because she knows that Torvald has the pride that most men  have and he would be very hurt and humiliated if he thought he owed Nora something. T-S If I was Nora I wouldn't have to worry about hiding things from my husband because he and I wouldn't lie to one another and there wouldn't be any secrets to hide. We would both be open about what is going on. But if there were to be something like that I would tell my husband from the beginning and then we would talk about. I wouldn't have a relationship like Nora and Torvald because it isn't a healthy relationship and the both of them aren't happy in their marriage. T-W Act I of the play A Doll House reminds me of Scandal because there are alot of secrets going around and no one knows what is going on and about the lies that are going around behind their backs and the deception that is taking place.

Who do you think these characters are and what do you think is happening in this scene?

1. Do you guys like the play so far and if so what is your favorite part of the play?

2. Would the play still be relevant if it were set in modern times?

3. How do you think Torvald will react when and if Nora ever tells him what she did?

4. How do you think Nora's secret will change her family? How will her family change?