Connection with A Doll's House

[brandonina]

Hey guys, so while reading this doll house, I was able to make several connections.
The one I especially remember (because I was sitting next to Yeajin for some reason ) was that when Nora was being obsessed with money and it's all she talks about to her husband. This is similar to a child asking for an allowance to his/her parents because Nora was pretty acting childish. Well, I believe you guys made many connections and I want to know!

[woojongpark]

I can't remember who said it, but our class made a connection to "Necklace". We thought that Nora's characteristics are similar to Mme. Loisel, because they both used money wastefully, (or attempted to), while their husbands tried to live frugally.
By the way, I wonder if Nora would end up in a same situation with Loisel. Considering her actions and thoughts, I think it's possible.

[lukejoo1092]

For me, the story made me think about the Christmases I had with my family, trying to compare the two. In my family, we had a decent decoration tree in our house and went to church to give the Christmas sermon. Then all of our uncle's families would gather in our house and have a nice Christmas dinner. Gifts were given from our parents to us but these days, they end up forgetting or just stopped giving us any... But in the Christmas I see from the story, it seems like a typical western holiday event where they prepare gifts for their children and invite their friends to come over. The main difference I found would be that they invited their friends while we tended to just celebrate the holiday within our family. But also, we weren't so obsessed with gifts but it seems that Nora is, being obsessed with money.

[james]

For me, when nora was showing off in front of her friend, christine?(the woman whos in a bad circumstances), i could make a connection with a child showing off in front of their friends. For ex. They tend to show off even if its just a little thing if they bought something, they shows that off i. Frnt of their friends so that theyre jeoulous or whateer..that was kinda childish for a woman who had a few kids..

[|Ruchira|]

there are a lot of sexist moments in the play, they remind me a lot of my parents because bangladesh is kind of sexist. like my mom does ALL the house work, my dad does nothing

[linnie]

I have similar connection as well... with Woojung! When I read this, I thought of Necklace. Her situation is really similar. Also the first part mostly deals with money, so I thought of Necklace. Loisel and Nora has similar attitude as well, which is obsessing with money. I wish ending doesn't turn out like Necklace because I did't really like the ending of Necklace.

My another connection is many other literatures that were written in this time period, and I am not sure, but i believe Pride and Prejudice is one of the examples. This shows gender role straight forward. So I think it is great connection I think.

[nadiraamalina]

I think it had a really loose connection to the movie Taken. The main character in the movie was willing to do really life-threatening things, and was willing to murder people just to get his daughter back. It's been ages since I watched that movie, but I think that he would do just about anything to save his daughter's life. I guess I only connected it to the movie because we talked about it in class, but Nora is also willing to do really dangerous things for those times such as fraud and lying to her husband, just to save her husband's life.

[jisu25]

This story kinds of remind me of when I was watching "Home Alone" when the main character asks the father's remarried mother to buy him a toy helicoter.

[mirim002]

This story, The doll's house, reminds me of the story that we read last year, The Necklace. In the Necklace, the main character, Mme Loisel craved for money & also the character Nora, also wanted money. As i was reading doll's house, i was like...hm this is so like the story of the Necklace.

[yeajinchoi]

When Nora couldn't tell her dad about the debt because she didn't want to worry him along with his illness, I was able to connect with her feelings. When I have to tell something to my dad, I end up re-thinking, should I really tell my dad? His life is already pretty busy, do I really need to make him think about something else? and they hold me back to asking/ telling things to him. So I knew what Nora had felt and why she couldn't tell her father.

[KevinW]

Krogstad identified with me as a person who made one slip but wishes for redemption. He reminds me of many of the petty criminals today; they did what they did out of necessity and truly try to reform.

Helmer reminded me of Stephen. Stephen as a gamer is incredibly . . . Helmer-ish

[sorn]

When Nora was hiding the macaroons from her husband I felt like it was a very childish action. She's like a child who wants to eat candy but his/her parents doesn't allow them to do so, so they decided to hide the candy inside their pockets and secretly eat it when their parents are not looking. I found it childish but I guess that is how the writer shows Nora's characteristic through small actions like this too.

[ExtremelyExtremeExtremist]

Torvald giving money to Nora reminded me of Kim Dae Jung and Noh Mu Hyun. Two presidents who supported communists donated a lot of money to North Korea, hoping to have peace in Korea. The money was actually used for Kim Jong Il¡¯s private money and for making illegal weapons, which is similar to a twist of Nora¡¯s actual use of money (Torvald thought that they were for her private money->It was actually owing Krogstad money).

[JustinK.]

A connection that i remember will be the time when Nora hides the macaroons from Torvald when she knew that it was absolutely not allowed in the house. It is just like kids hiding sweets from their parents, even when they knew it was not allowed.