Mr. Krogstad's Argument In Court Cases

She gains her independence and saves her husband. However, her reputation is nearly destroyed after Torvald finds out she forged the letter. Nora asking, “It is indiscreet, to save your husband’s life,” knows that she sacrificed a lot to save Torvald (Ibsen 1029). Nora believes she saved Torvald’s life, she also believes that if he knew then their lives would never be the same. If Torvald knew Nora had taken out a loan, he would feel indebted to her and that would be humiliating to his masculinity, while disrupting their “happy” home life. However, Nora relinquished many of the things that meant a lot to her. Nora forged her father’s signature risking her and Torvald’s reputation. She also takes on all the debt herself, paying it off with her spending money. Nora will not be able to buy as much for herself with the debt revealing her willingness to sacrifice wealth for Torvald’s wellbeing. Just as Cyrano sacrifices his life to send letters to Roxane, Nora sacrifices her happiness and reputation to save Torvald. This shows Nora’s devotion and unconditional love towards Torvald. Both Cyrano and Nora are risking their lives for someone they love. As Cyrano repeatedly risks his life for Roxane, Nora feels as though her “duties to herself” are more valuable than her devotion to anyone else as she states, “aren’t they your duties to your husband and children?... Duties to myself…” (1076). Nora has gone through a kind

These two statements present clear support for the conclusion that Wasserstrom believes lawyers are positioned in an amoral world. The second conclusion is defended by many statements and situations concerning the lawyer?client relationship. Wasserstrom identifies a few dominant traits with in this relationship containing inequality, created by role-differentiation, and vulnerability.

The role of the judge in the adversary system of trial, unlike the inquisitorial counterpart, has less involvement in the establishment of facts and the analysis of evidence in cases brought before the court. In the inquisitorial system of trial, the judge has a much more active role in relation to the handling and evaluation of evidence, and where relevant, can actually cross examine and question witnesses if they feel crucial evidence may have been missed. While the inquisitorial system of trial has a seemingly more intrusive judge, having an added legal expert questioning and raising areas where evidence may have been missed, is a significant improvement over a judge who may know evidence has been missed but cannot intervene such is the

During this period, women were subjected in their gender roles and were restricted over what the patriarchal system enforced on them. Everyone was brought up believing that women had neither self-control nor self-government but that they must capitulate to the control of dominate gender. The ideology that “God created men and women different - … [and they should] remain each in their own position.” (eHow, Ibsen's Influences on Women's Rights) is present in A Doll’s House with Nora’s character, as she is seen as the ideal women during the Victorian Era, who is first dutiful as wife and mother before to her own self. Whenever Torvald gives Nora money, she spends it on her children so that they are not “shabbily dressed” (Act 1). Though she loves her children it is all the more shocking when she leaves them.

Also in Act II, Nora begins to question the law. When Krogstad comes to Nora, they speak of why she used the money. Nora says, “Hasn’t a daughter the right to shield her father from worry and anxiety when he’s old and dying? Hasn’t a wife the right to save her husband’s life? I don’t know much about the law, but there must be something somewhere that says that such things are allowed”(2,1). Nora doesn’t seem to question much, but her concern that she could not sign for a loan to take care of her family as a man could shows that she is now questioning the rights of a woman.

Previous to the opening of the play, Nora makes the decision to get a loan without Torvald's knowledge so that he can go to Italy and improve his health, showing compassion and love for her husband. Nora's aquiring the loan with her father as a guarantor, shows that she cared enough not to worry her husband with money problems at a time that he needed to heal. Forging her

abide by his rules and be dependent on him. She is not supposed to think for herself and repeatedly told so by those around her. When speaking about Nora in her presence, Torvald says, “She is so terribly self-willed” (55). Nora has a conversation with Mrs. Linde, who also tells her, “Don’t be self-willed” (57). Torvald tells her, “I will advise you and direct you” (64). Nora is expected to be a dependent slave who follows her husband’s advice and directions. Women were also legally dependent upon men. The society’s laws of that time even required the male to cosign everything that a woman had to sign. Nora’s naivete in forging her father’s signature and trying to pay off the loan further emphasizes Victorian society’s assumptions about women’s inability to deal with a “man’s world.”

All men and women were created equally and, thus, should be treated equally; however, Nora breaks the law and lies to her husband. She should receive the same consequences as any man of that time period. “… her great and admirable trait of character was that of being ready to sacrifice all for the man whom she loved.” (Henrik Ibsen: A Critical Biography, pg. 241). The thought of a woman committing crimes that men would normally commit was unheard of. Nora was able to get away with forgery because no one would suspect a woman to commit such a crime. She is smart enough to realize this somewhat loophole could grant her crime with no justification. The human mind gives us the ability to make choices and rationalize our thoughts. It may be skewed differently by gender, but most of the time the choices we make are based on the effectiveness of everyone else around us. Nora made these choices to benefit her husband but at the same time she must lie to him and anyone else involved. “Because such an atmosphere of lies infects and poisons the whole life of a home. Each breath the children take in such a is full of the germs of evil” (Ibsen, pg.47). Her husband’s health and ability to live is obviously more important than a few lies. However, Nora didn’t think twice about her choice to break the law in her husband’s honor. She is very dedicated in their relationship but at the same time wants independence and the

Nora's second, and strongest, break from society's rules was shown by her decision to leave Torvald and her children.  Society demanded that she take a place under her husband.  This is shown in the way Torvald spoke down to her saying things like "worries that you couldn't possibly help me with" (Ibsen Page #), and "Nora, Nora, just like a woman" (Ibsen page #).  She is almost considered to be property of his: "Mayn't I look at my dearest treasure?  At all the beauty that belongs to no one but me - that's all my very own" (Ibsen page #)?  By walking out she takes a position equal to her husband and destroys the very foundation of society's expectations of a wife and mother.  Nora also breaks society's expectations of staying in a marriage since divorce was frowned upon during that era.  Her decision represented a break from all expectations placed upon a woman by society. Throughout the play Nora is looked down upon and treated as a possession by her husband. She is

Nora proceeds to apologize and plays the role of the obedient wife. Nora has the right to spend extra money after what she has been through for the first few years of marriage. Nora and Torvald were very poor. Torvald also became sick and had to travel to Italy to recover. Nora secretly and illegally got a loan to pay for the trip to Italy. During the time setting of the play, women weren’t allowed to do certain things without their husband’s permission such as take out loans. Nora has been working extra hard to pay back her debt and the promotion that Torvald will receive will help Nora become debt free.

"The mere fact that Nora's well-intentioned action is considered illegal reflects woman's subordinate position in society. It can be suggested that woman have power to choose which rules to follow at home, but not in the business world, thus indicating her subordinateness."(Thomas, cyberessays.com)

Nora is married to Torvald and she is basically his property, she must abide by his rules and she is not allowed to work so she must rely on Torvald to give her money. In this era woman were not allowed to borrow money from the bank without their husband’s signature. Keeping the last two statements in mind when Torvald became very sick and was not able to work or provide enough money for his family, Nora had to do something, she could not sit there and watch her whole family suffer. Nora forged her own fathers signature to borrow money so that her and Torvald could go to Italy until Torvald was healthy again. Henrik Ibsen writes in A Doll’s House that, “Nora.

Even though she acted out of love, it was still illegal for Nora to borrow money. She lies to Torvald that she got the money from her father. Nora says that she will repay the debt soon, but never told Torvald because it was illegal for married women to borrow money. When Torvald finds out in the end, he yells at Nora and

For most in Thebian society, the social isolation and induced shame brought about by being 'unique' would steer the individual back towards the widespread held principles. However, it can be observed that Antigone is far too strong willed to submit to society's standards for behavior, and even Creon states "submission [to men] is a thing she's never learned." (211) In A Doll's House as well, women such as Nora have many restraints that keep them from performing certain actions, even if they are good intentioned. For instance, in Nora's society "a wife cannot borrow without her husband's consent." (12) Not only that, but Nora seems to rely on the men in her life, mainly Torvald to perform various tasks for her. "I can't hit upon anything that will do; everything I think of seems so silly and insignificant." "Does my little Nora acknowledge that at last?" (27) Torvald here illustrates the fact that Nora's and consequently women's place in society is dictated by the rule of man - women can make few decisions without the assistance of men. Moreover when Nora asks Torvald to reinstate Krogstad to the bank, he blatantly refuses, stating, "Is it to get about now that the new manager has changed his mind at his wife's bidding ¾" "Do you suppose I am going to make myself ridiculous before my whole staff...?" (35) For anyone to sway Torvald would be 'ridiculous', but it being his own wife, that he supposedly has ultimate control over, would be

While reading literature books in school I have seen examples of women being treated less of what they should be treated as by men. This is present in the book A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen. This book is about a couple who goes to extremes to help one another but would they actually stick to what they say they are going to do. In Act III Nora is having a discussion with her husband Torvald , the only one they have has since they have been married. Nora is explaining this to Torvald “‘When I look back on it now, I seem to have been living here like a beggar, from hand to mouth. I lived performing tricks for you, Torvald’” (Ibsen 197). This quote is showing how Nora has never defending for herself, she has had most everything handed to her and has not had much say in what she does. This has helped her but also weakened her. Nora now does not know what is right and what is