The Role Of Parents In A Doll's House

“Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother...It seems most commonly to be the mother’s influence,though naturally a bad father’s would have the same result.”(Act I, A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen) In the book, A Doll 's House by Henrik Ibsen it is commonly believed that the character of the parent has a large impact on their children. In some cases, children have to pay for the sins of their parents because part of the parent lives on in the child after the parent 's death. Throughout the play, Nora is constantly reminded of the impact parents have on their children. Nora did not want to leave her children, but she felt she had to in order to preserve their future. This notion is supported by the

Rank inherited. In the play, the disease is referred to as consumption of the spine. However, the chances of this disease being passed down to a child from a parent are slim. Also, consumption of the spine would not have lasted Dr. Ranks entire life Dr. Rank sees his illness as payment for his father 's sins. For his entire life, Dr. Rank has had to live with the sickness his father gave him. When Ms. Linde asks about Dr. Rank Nora attributes Dr. Ranks sickness to his father. Dr. Rank was burdened by illness because of his father’s sins. He may not have inherited his father promiscuity; however his father left him with the illness that he still struggled with up until the end of the

He forbids her from raising her children saying that he no longer trusts her to raise their children. Nora also agrees with him to some degree because ultimately it was her decision to leave her both her husband and her children at the end of the story. In act three, Nora says “I won’t see the little ones. I know they are in better hands than mine. As I am now, I can be of no use to them.” She believed that her children would be better off being raised by Anne, the nurse who cared for Nora when she was a child. Nora’s leaving could also act as a parallel between Nora and her mother as Nora’s mother seemed not to have much of a presence in Nora’s childhood. This is reinforced when the nurse says “Little Nora, poor dear, had no other mother but me” in act II implying that Nora’s mother had very little presence in her life. There is the possibility, however slim, that Nora’s decision to leave her children and Torvald was influenced by her mother doing the same when Nora was a