Theme Of Reality In A Doll's House

Shakespeare one of the most well-known writers created the idea that shiny things aren 't necessarily precious things. Over time this idea was reworded into the common everyday quote “All that glitters is not gold”. With new wording Shakespeare’s once literal meaning of his idea, is now defined as the attractive external appearance of something is not a reliable indication of its true nature. Many years after Shakespeare’s time Mark Ibsen incorporated “all that glitters is not gold” in his play A Doll’s House. Throughout his play Ibsen express the theme appearance vs reality to his audience. He creates characters whose initial appearance is completely different to their true personality. At the beginning of the play the main characters create

Nora walks in the house carrying parcels for the children and the Porter follows behind her carrying a Christmas tree and a basket. Upon placing the tree and basket down Nora pays him a shilling, more than double what she should have paid him, and tells him to keep the change. Nora paying the Porter more than double what she should have shown that she wants to seem to others in society that her and Torvald are rich and can afford to pay the Porter more than double especially around Christmas time. Therefore, Nora makes herself seem very self-centered and immature for pretending that her and Torvald’s money situation is perfectly fine. Later on in the play Nora’s old friend Mrs. Linde stops by in order to ask Nora to help her find a job. Before Mrs. Linde asks Nora the two have a conversation catching up with each other’s lives. Mrs. Linde begins to tell Nora that she is “both proud and glad to think that [she] was privileged to make the end of [her] mother’s life almost free of care” (1.10). Nora being very egoistic quickly changes the subject to herself and what she is proud of in her