Analysis of Irony in A Dolls House
All scenes of this play take place in the late 1800's home of one of the main characters, Torvald Helmer. Written by Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House contains many instances of irony. The main characters, Nora and Torvald, are especially involved in this. Many of the examples of irony in this play are types of dramatic irony. Dramatic irony usually refers to a situation in a play wherein a character's knowledge is limited, and he or she encounters something of greater significance than he or she knows. Throughout the play, most of the dramatic irony displayed is between Nora and Torvald, with Torvald being the character whose knowledge is limited. Early on in the play, when Mr. Krogstad is threatening to tell Torvald of Nora's secret, Nora pleads with him and asks him not to. She says to him that "It would be a rotten shame. That secret is all my pride and joy - why should he have to hear about it in this nasty, horrid way........hear about it from you" (1431). This is ironic in that her "pride and joy" is something that
It is easy to see the irony in the characters situations. Some examples are more obvious than others, but it is all very clear. Another illustration of irony is the way Nora treats her children as if they were dolls. Nora buys clothes for the children, and shows them off to visitors, but she doesn't actually mother them, Anne Marie does. She takes pride in the fact that she was able to borrow money, since women are not supposed to be able to, and that she has been able to save and work for enough money to be able to make the payments on her loan. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. And therefore, he gets into situations in which he encounters things of greater significance than he anticipates. After everything is clear, Torvald forgives her, which makes Nora realize that all he cares about is himself and he would have never helped her.
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