Christmas and New
Year Days
The
play is set at Christmas
and New Year season.
Christmas and New
Year holidays are
both associated with rebirth
and renewal and
several of the
characters go through a kind of
rebirth over the course of the play.
1. The Helmer’s look forward to the
new year with a lot excitement, Torvald will start his new job meaning earning
extra money .
2. Krogstad and Linde also have a fresh
start in
Life having reconciled and decided to
start life together as a couple
3. The maid will take the place of a
mother in the children’s lives and the children have to do without their
mother.
Christmas Tree
The
Christmas tree symbolizes
Nora's role in
her household. She is
only a decoration
to be looked
at. Torvald uses her to impress himself and he even dresses her up in costumes
and makes her dance for him.
Thus it symbolizes Nora‘s
position in her household
as a plaything
who is pleasing
to look at
and adds charm to the home.
Doll’s House
The title is
also symbolic. It represents Helmer’s house where Nora is his doll; to be
dressed and played with for his amusement. Nora
tells Torvald that both he and
her father treated her like a doll, and cites this as one of
the reasons why
she has become
dissatisfied and disillusioned
with her life.
The tarantella
It is used to symbolize Nora's
character a side that she
cannot normally show. The Tarantella is a folk dance
from southern Italy. It was originally done as a therapy to cure a poisonous
spider bite. The wild dance of
Nora is a
symbolic expression of
her tragic inner condition and,
at the same
time, a therapeutic
instrument that gives
her courage to face
up the suicide
that she plans
to carry out.
It is a
dance of recovering from the madness of
her fate; Tarantella has the power to heal Nora. You can see After this dance,
she will change the fancy dress and wear her ordinary dress, symbolizing Nora’s
transformation from the dependent and voiceless person to an independent
decisive one.
Money
A need for money affects all the major
characters in A Doll’s House. In the play, money symbolizes the power
that the characters have over one another.
- Torvald’s for instance has the ability to dictate how much Nora spends on Christmas presents.
- Meanwhile, the debt that Nora owes Krogstad allows him to have power over her and Torvald.
- 3. Both Nora and Mrs. Linde cannot earn large incomes because they are women; their inability to access significant amounts of money is one way that they are oppressed .
- The play also shows that, while earning money it leads to power, which can be dangerous.
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