Explain how language throughout the play reveals

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Question 1. What is your attitude toward Nora at the beginning of the play? How does your attitude toward her change as the play progresses? What actions and lines of dialogue change your assessment of her?

Question 2. In addition to the play's main plot - which concerns the blackmail of Nora by Krogstad and her attempts to keep her crime secret from Toravld - the play contains several subplots. Some of them began to develop before the start of the play, and some unfold alongside the main plot. What are these subplots? How do they advance the themes of survival, debt, sacrifice, and duty that run through the play?

Question 3. In many ways this play is about gaining an identity. How does Torvald define himself? How does Nora define herself? How are they defined by society? What do you use to define yourself? What role does society play in defining who we are?

Question 4. Many people were outraged that Nora would leave her husband and children at the end of A Doll's House. In fact, some early versions of the play have her going into the children's room at the last minute and deciding to stay. Which ending do you think is the more effective one, from a dramatic/literary standpoint, and why? Be sure to refer to the main themes of the play and to keep in mind Nora's and Torvald's characters.

Question 5. In what ways does A Doll's House seem to apply to life today? Is it in any way dated? A period piece? Is the play valuable only as it depicts life in the nineteenth century in Norway, or does it still tell us something about life today? Could there be a Nora or a Torvald in the United States today?

Question 6. Which characters change in the course of the play? Consider one dynamic character and examine the causes and effects of the change. Also consider how characters act as foils (a foil is typically a character that contrasts with another character - usually the protagonist - to highlight the particular qualities of the other character).

Question 7. Explain how language throughout the play reveals the relationship between Nora and Torvald and the ways this relationship shifts between the beginning and the end of the play. How does the play criticize society's conventions, such as the patriarchal society and laws concerning loans.

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