Role Of Sacrifice In A Doll's House Sacrifice

Complex Sacrifices

The word sacrifice when used metaphorically is described as a selfless good deed or act for others; it is a short-term loss in return for a greater gain. There are many things we do in life, even on a regular basis that we sacrifice. One may choose to go to the gym and sacrifice one’s pain in order to gain muscle, or someone may miss their favorite TV show to help out a friend. Sacrifices come in all shapes and sizes, but to what extent will we go for the ones we love. How far can love and life push the boundaries of sacrifice? In the play A Doll’s House sacrifice played a very important roll, and created some very dynamic complexities.

Nora, Torvalds wife, plays a unique role in the play as she is put into a very serious situation where she has to choose to make a huge sacrifice. One day Torvald and Nora found out that Torvald was dying. It just so happens that her father was also on his deathbed. Nora was faced with a very complicated situation in which she is going to have to make a sacrifice to save one or the other. Nora did not have much money due to how back then women could not borrow money or take out a loan with out a man’s signature. Nora decides she needs to take out a loan in order to try and prolong her husband’s life, after all they did have three lovely children together and she couldn’t take care of them on her own.

We make sacrifices every day, but we often forget to think of the consequences of what may happen in the future relating to that very sacrifice.

In the play Nora, chooses to attain a loan, in order to help prolong Torvalds life. The only problem is that she needed a man’s signature to aid in getting it approved. Nora’s father passed away, and shortly after she forged his sign...

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...fear the most are telling someone our deepest secrets. However it is usually best we tell them instead, of them finding out through a different source.

So in life we will have to make choices, some bigger than others and some will come with great sacrifice. But it is best we try to understand that something may happen that we cannon control related to these sacrifices. Even though times can become very complicated, we need to understand that at the end of the day we are responsible for our own actions and we must be able to admit them. The monsters that we all have in our closets can be too scary to let out at times, but its still better that we let them out, not someone else.

Works Cited

Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll House. Rpt. in The Norton Introduction to Literature. 11th ed. Ed. Kelly J. Mays. New York : McGraw W.W. Norton and Company, 2013.

1447-1496. Print.