A Doll House
Helmer is a successful bank lawyer in the drama "A Doll House" written by Henrik Ibsen. His wife's name is Nora. She is a housewife with three children and gets help raising them from her maid Helen. Nora and Helmer are both busy people within their lives. Little do they know that their marriage is not safe due to the fact that it is not given first priority in the lives they led.The action takes place in their home. Helmer is very protective when it comes to the family image that is portrayed to the public. This is because his career, as a lawyer, depends on it. He feels that he should have a perfect public image for the sake of his career and not his family, since that is what comes first in his life. This is seen when he discovers a letter from a bank that his wife, Nora, gets a loan from. He finds out that the loan was acquired illegally through forgery. She uses her father's signature. Helmer immediately strips her of all her rights to him as his wife and to the children as their mother. He does not ask for divorce since this will not be a good public image for his career, instead he asks her to have a separate room from his and limits her time with the children.Helmer is the rule maker of his house. He meticulous
Helmer has an office in the house of with he gives limited accesses to his wife, Nora. He wants to be the first one to handle all the mail, scans the letters in the box and then distributes them to the appropriate people. His wife again is placed second to his business. He entertains his official friends in the office in closed-door sessions and usually doesn't fill in his wife on his business. They have both contributed to their marriage's downfall. This clearly shows that he loves his career more than anything else. Nora on the other hand expects her husband to show her a sacrificial love and take the blame for the forgary. It looks like he does not take his wife as an equal by not giving her a spare key. Rank, a family friend, know about the chocolate and not her husband. The key to the mailbox is in the hands of Hemler. She is constantly lying just to save herself from changing her husbands view towards her. He treats her as if she was one of his children instead of "his wife". He gets angry and strips her of all her motherly and wife rights.
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