Awaking from the Spider's Bite - Act 2 of
Reality is sometimes a hard thing to come to terms with. A child doesn't want to know that Santa Claus doesn't really exist, just as a cuckolded husband doesn't want to believe his wife is cheating on him. But eventually we as humans must face up to the truth about ourselves. Otherwise, we'd never evolve. It is this striking theme that permeates the entire second act of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. The first act of the play found Nora's secrets backfiring on her, threatening to upset forever the blind tranquility of her home life. In this second act, she begins to come to terms with the fact that her perfect fantasy world is in fact just that - a fantasy. Nora begins to have realizations about the nature of her marriage and, indeed, her very life. She doesn't want to face these facts about herself and her family, but she can no longer turn back. Something has to change, for better or for worse. This principle dramatic action is set into motion from the very first scene, which begins with the first stage directions of the act and ends with Nora crying, "Ah- they're coming-!" The nurse makes a comment while talking to Nora that seems to sum up the dramatic action of this scene - "A poor girl what's got into trouble ca
I have placed scene seven between when Christine hurries out the door (p. She feels like a child, being bossed around by a dominant male figure. A) and Nora softly cries, "Now we're lost!" (p. The significance is all too clear to Nora as the scene closes, as her level of confidence in Torvald is summed up in one line: "Oh, Torvald, Torvald! Now we're lost!" (p. This quickly segues into a definite acceptance of the situation at hand, though a begrudging one. And the tactless idiot makes no effort to conceal it" (p. This statement by Torvald starts Nora on a thought process that eventually leads to her belief that a "miracle" - that is, she and Torvald sharing responsibility in the marriage - will occur. He knows her as a human being, and thus emerges as the only man in her entire life that can claim such a thing. Scene three begins as Helmer enters from the hallway (p. This is reflected best when she states, ".
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