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A DOLL'S HOUSE: KRISTINE LINDE

Mrs. Linde, Nora's old friend, is the first "voice from the past"
who affects the future. On the one hand, she is like Nora because
she's gone through what Nora is about to face. Kristine has come out
of a marriage that was socially acceptable and emotionally bankrupt.
On the other hand, she is different from Nora because, having
already been disillusioned, she has now gained a firm grasp on
reality. She has hope, but it's based on knowing and accepting the
truth about herself and about Krogstad. Kristine is the first to see
Nora's marriage for the pretense it is. It is Kristine who decides,
for better or worse, that Torvald has to know the whole truth about
Nora's forgery.

Kristine and Krogstad's compassionate and realistic relationship
contrasts with Nora and Torvald's playacting. While the Helmers'
socially acceptable relationship crumbles because it's based on
deceptions, Nils and Kristine's relationship is renewed and
strengthened because it's based on truth.


A DOLL'S HOUSE: NILS KROGSTAD

Nils Krogstad, a clerk in Helmer's bank, is called immoral by
several other characters in the play, but is he? We usually think of
an immoral person as someone who has no regard for right and wrong.

But Krogstad is concerned with right and wrong. He's also concerned
about his reputation and its effect on his children. Although he has
been a forger, he wants to reform and tries desperately to keep his
job and social standing. Once they're lost, he decides to play the
part of the villain in which society has imprisoned him. His attempt
to blackmail Nora sets the play's action in motion.

Through his blackmail letter he forces Nora into self-knowledge. He
also affects some of the other characters in ways that reveal not
only the truth about him, but the truth about them as well. For
example, you discover much of Torvald's pettiness from the way he
reacts to Krogstad as an inferior. Despite his superficial role as a
villain, Krogstad understands himself and the world. Although some
find his conversion in Act Three hard to believe, he (together with
Kristine) offers that message of hope that gives promise to Nora's
future.



A DOLL'S HOUSE: SETTING

A Doll's House takes place in a large Norwegian town. The entire