Standing Up For Children In Henrik Ibsen's Play

“A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met” David A. Bednar. A home is the only safe zone some children have, when it is not an enjoyable zone it just destroys what once was there. The mother is naturally the care giver to her children regardless what the situation. This essay will examine loyalty and as well as development revealing the significance of standing up for oneself, “macaroons”, “no debts, no borrowing”, “I shall go home”. Nora is being portrayed as a child at the opening scene of the play, one can see that Nora is “hiding the macaroons in her pocket”. She is doing this because her husband Torvald Helmer,
Krogstad who used to work at the bank with Torvald, until he was let go and replaced by Mrs. Linden, Nora’s school friend. Nora took out a loan to take her husband out and with doing so she forged her dead father’s signature and Krogstad is now coming around to collect the debt. Since Nora has no money to pay off the debt, so Krogstad sends a letter to Torvald explain to him about the situation his wife is currently in. Once Torvald opens the letter he immediately runs over to Nora and demands an explanation from her doing. He is furious at the fact that she would do this behind his back, he does not try and see the reasoning behind doing that. Once Torvald is as his highest level of anger he raises his hand at Nora and slaps her, this is the turning point for both of them. Nora than begins to realize that this is not the life for her and has made the decision to leave the kids and Torvald to find herself. She no longer wants to be in a place where she is incapable of finding who she really is. Torvald realizes what he has done, and knows that the right way to fix something is to do it as a couple and not fight over something that is already said and