Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Alternate Ending

So at the end of A Dolls House Nora ended up leaving her Torvald to become an independent woman and to educate herself. Also she leaves her children with the Maid to take care of them. Ibsen not only wrote this ending but wrote an alternate ending which he did not publish. In that ending Nora ended up staying with Torvald instead of leaving the house and packing. If it was up to me I would have Nora leave too. To continue this story I would have Nora go and get work. So that she knows how it feels to not have to hide what she does. Torvald ends up learning what she has been doing and is shocked to know that Nora is actually capable of being independent without him. A few years pass by and he misses Nora so he decides to try and get her back saying that he has changed but she doesn't want him. She now knows what she deserves and she doesn't want her life to end up how it was again. She comes for her kids but not for Torvald. Instead she finds a man who actually treats her like a woman and listens to her and she listens to him like a real married couple. Not like shes his little Doll.

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