Journal 13- A Doll's House
A Doll’s House was a great story that we read about in English this semester. I really enjoyed this story because we got to watch a video on it in class, and it helped to see a visual representation of what we read in our book. This story was great because we got to analyze the characters more because of their distinct traits. We found that Christine was a foil to Nora, because they had the same socioeconomic level, and she was also more independent and responsible. Nora was controlled by her husband, instead. Nora was also very childlike and naïve. She hid things in the story. We learned that in this time period this was referred to as perpetual baptism: which meant that fathers did not educate their daughters so they could hand them over to their husbands as teenagers and it was their job to then educate them if they wanted to or not. We learned a lot about independence from this story as well. Torvald’s family accented him to fit societies needs. Krogstad committed fogery and was tried, convicted and paid his dues and now wanted to make his way in society. Krogstad was a foil of Dr. Ronk. Between the two we see who had moral character and who did not. Dr. Ronk was the “good guy” and he also had syphilis unfortunately. Krogstad was morally corrupt because he committed blackmail after he lost his job. The author was playing with sterotypes through the characters in this story.