Outline For A Doll's House

Krogstad’s behavior and motives are based on the fact that he does not want to lose his job at the bank where Nora’s husband Torvald manages. In a desperate attempt to keep his job and spare his children from hardship, he uses Nora to influence her husband. Her attempts to save Krogstad’s job fail because Torvald is convinced that Krogstad is a liar and a cheat and he will not jeopardize his moral character or be swayed by his wife. He states, “Do you think I’m going to make myself look ridiculous in front of my whole staff, and let people think I can be pushed around by all sorts of outside influence?” (1624)

Krogstad victimizes Nora in a very different way than her husband and father. Krogstad does not use his position of dominance as a man to control her. Instead he uses blackmail to manipulate Nora to his will. As we examine her situation Nora seems more a victim of circumstance here than of the not so evil will of her blackmailer.

person was Krogstad; a simple man with a strong power. Nora, like every person, has had troubles in her

Krogstad was established as a major antagonist to Nora’s character, and the reason for Nora’s struggle throughout the novel. Although this was true, Krogstad’s development actually gave more clarity to Nora’s decisions, and how she was wronged by society, and his character development was more true to himself. Krogstad’s change as a character shows the overall idea of struggle, and is an important character for Nora to realize her place. When we are introduced to Krogstad, we immediately assume his villainous and antagonist role in the story, and his threats towards Nora. Krogstad wishes for a place in the bank and uses blackmail against Nora so that she convinces Torvald to keep his post, and he was very willing in this regard.

As he took over the role as bank director his first motion was to fire a man who had been seen as a disgrace for forging a signature. This “disgraceful” man is known as Krogstad. Krogstad is the person that allowed Nora to borrow money. Krogstad comes to find out that Nora had forged her father’s signature on the loan that allowed her to receive the money. When Krogstad finds out that Torvald is planning to relive him from the company, he notifies Nora that he will be blackmailing her if she does not sacrifices for his loss. In other words, Krogstad threatens Nora, in which he will reveal the crime Nora had committed to Torvald. If Nora cannot convince Torval to keep Krogstad at the Bank, Krogstad states that there will be consequences. Day after day, Nora continues to influence and change the perspective of Torvald. In result of Torvald seeing Nora as a “Doll” who entitles, nevertheless childlike activities, he does not take her advice to keep Krogstad. He values Nora as someone who simply means nothing in the world of knowledge. When Nora does not succeed to complete Krogstads request, he sends Torvald a letter describing Nora’s

When Krogstad threatens to expose the truth, Nora must use her craftiness to distract Torvald and sway him into letting Krogstad keep his job. Unfortunately, she is not able to change his mind, but she does succeed in diverting his suspicions of her motives. She praises him and lulls him into a false sense of security by telling him that "[n]o one has such good taste as [he has]" and then goes on to ask him if he could "take [her] in hand and decide what [she is] to go as" for the dance. She confesses to him that she "can't do anything without [him] to help [her]". These statements lead him to believe that he is the one to "rescue" her, when it is in fact Nora who is trying to rescue him from dishonour. Later on, when Krogstad puts a letter in Torvald's mail, explaining everything that Nora has done, Nora uses her charms once more. She pretends that she has forgotten the tarantella so that Torvald will spend all his time with her and think nothing of the mail that awaits him. Nora truly believes that by deceiving her husband, she is protecting him from worry. Because of Nora's deception, the person that Torvald believes her to be is quite different from the person she actually is. He believes that she is a "spendthrift," infatuated by expensive things when in reality, she saves her money to pay back Krogstad and buys cheap clothing and gifts. Torvald

After Torvald reads Krogstad's first letter, he gets angry and shames Nora. He says that she’s a terrible person and that they have to do anything that Krogstad asks for. Also, he says that Nora can’t see the children anymore because she may corrupt them. After Nora hears this, Nora becomes disappointed in Torvald because he said he would sacrifice and do anything for Nora. She expected Torvald to try to sacrifice himself for her, taking all the blame on himself, which he didn’t to.

Nora and Torvald have been married for a long time and they do their best to make sure they are happy. Nora loves Torvald very much and would do anything to

After having used Krogstad to get what she needed, yet another issue arose. Krogstad turned on Nora once his position at the bank was on the line, and used her borrowing against her for his own good. “Niles Krogstad is also Mrs. Linde’s former crush, and he tries to redeem himself of his crimes of forgery by raising his children” (Rosefeldt).

Nora is married to Torvald Helmer who is the new manager of the bank. During his health crisis, he befriended Dr. Rank who reveals that he has a love interest for Nora Helmer. While Torvald was sick, Nora forged a contract in her fathers name to get a loan from Nil Krogstad which later came back to bite her. Once Krogstad found out the Nora's husband was the new manager, he blackmailed

After eight years of marriage, Nora realizes Torvald is not her husband, but a stranger instead. The marriage between the two strangers has been loveless and demeaning as Torvald repeatedly suppresses Nora through dehumanizing

Krogstad feels threatened by her influence because she can be the pivotal deciding factor in whether or not he keeps his job. Nevertheless, Krogstad tries to turn her influence to benefit himself by threatening to reveal her crime if she does not help him to keep his job. This backfires on Krogstad when two women, Nora and Mrs. Linde, manipulate Krogstad into feeling obstinate and therefore he promises never to tell anyone of what Nora has done. Nora's power helped her to remain protected throughout the entire play.

However, Nora does eventually realize that she has been treated like a child all her life and has been denied the right to think and act the way she wishes. When Torvald does not immediately offer to help Nora after Krogstad threatens to expose her, Nora realizes that there is a problem. By waiting until after he discovers that his social status will suffer no harm, Torvald reveals his true

Now that Krogstad is fired from the bank, He is blackmailing Nora for her getting a loan through signing her dying father’s signature. When Torvald finds out about Nora’s crime, She expect sympathy from Torvald about her dilemma because he said to her that he fantasizes about risking his life to save Nora’s. “Do you know, Nora, I have often wished that you might be threatened by some great danger, so that I might risk my life’s blood, and everything, for your sake” (Ibsen, 833). Once given the opportunity, however; Torvald shows no intention of sacrificing his life or anything for Nora, thinking only about his appearances. His selfishness becomes

Mrs. Linde assumes that Dr. Rank is the person that Nora borrowed money from, but Nora denies it and doesn’t tell her who the real person is. Torvald shows up. Nora begs him to not fire Krogstad. Her begging only angers off Torvald, and he tells the maid to send Krogstad his notice. Torvald goes to his office. Nora then had a plan to ask Dr. Rank for the remainder of the money that she owes, but her plan fails when he tells her that he will be dying soon and that he is in love with her. She feels guilty and doesn’t ask. As Dr. Rank goes in to see Torvald, Krogstad comes storming in, upset that he was fired. He yelled at Nora and then put blackmail in Torvald’s mailbox on the way out. In a fret, Nora tells Mrs. Linde everything. Mrs. Linde explains that she used to have a relationship with Krogstad that maybe she could change his mind. Mrs. Linde leaves to give a note to Krogstad, while Nora has to keep Torvald from reading the letter. The next night, while the costume party was taking place, Krogstad met up with Mrs. Linde to talk. The conversation revealed that they were once both deeply in love with one another, but Mrs. Linde left him for another wealthier man. She then confesses that she wants to get back with him. He accepts. They agree that they would leave Krogstad’s letter for Torvald to read because it would be better if Krogstad knew what his wife did for him. They ran