Use Of Hypocrisy In A Doll's House

“History repeats itself” is a phrase often spoken. So much so, in fact, that people often understand it as tacit in many situations; however, while the physical actions and events of history are often replayed in some way or another, the societal conventions and, ironically the least obvious, the human condition flaws included also unapologetically bleeds back back into our society regardless of how much we try to expel the worst parts. Though one may assume that thought of humans being human is is common to all because of how inadmissible the fact is, we as a species regularly prove this to not be common knowledge because we, in most cases, genuinely believe that our idiosyncrasies, issues, and flaws are uniquely our own. This simply is not true; as I have stated, the same things have been happening to mankind for years, and one of the best avenues to use to find evidence of my claims is classic literature.Studying the intricacies and motifs
He is irrevocably hateable in this story for, among other things, his hypocrisy. This can be credited to an excellent layout for character development by Ibsen. Torvald’s most notable, though not his only, offense of hypocrisy is how he goes on about how he would love for some horrible incident to befall their household or more specifically his wife only so that he might be able to play prince charming and swoop in to save his darling fragile wife Nora; however, when such a dilemma arises amongst them, this “prince charming” is nowhere to be found. In fact, there is no compassion in him when he is made aware of Nora’s financial trouble. He becomes filled with rage and ultimately hammers the last nail in the coffin for his own marriage with this great act of hypocrisy. Ibsen’s grand show of the hypocrisy of man is further analyzed when critic Scott Clement