A Doll's House: Unscrambled Words and Text-Specific Sentences

The assignment focuses on Henrik Ibsen's play, A Doll's House, and requires students to unscramble words related to the play's themes, characters, and plot. The student has provided the unscrambled words, including "Frivolity", "Infectious Disease", "Pragmatic", "Power", "Forgery", "Sacrifice", "Concealment", "Marriage", "Nora", "Money", "Pet Names", "Blackmail", and "Doll Motif". For each word, the student has written one or two sentences demonstrating their understanding of the play and how the word relates to the plot, characters, and conflicts. The sentences highlight Nora's character, the themes of deception, sacrifice, and the societal constraints placed upon women, and the evolving dynamics within the marriage of Torvald and Nora. The assignment showcases an analysis of the play's central themes and character development.

A DOLL’S HOUSE

Unscrambled words My text specific sentences
Frivolity In A Doll’s House, Nora’s character shows
frivolity or silliness through her actions.
However, this initial frivolity breaks apart as
the play proceeds towards its end.
Infectious disease In the play, Helmer says that the habit of lying
is an infectious disease that passes on from the
mother to the children. According to him, it is
mainly the mother, and not the father, who has
the capability to induce deceitfulness in the
minds of the children.
Pragmatic The play starts with a portrayal of a romantic
married couple although gradually the garb of
a pragmatic side of a seemingly perfect
marriage begins to be discovered.
Power Nora was living with a false perception of
power in which she thought that she had the
power over her husband. Gradually she gets to
realize that the actual power works only for the
men of the house at that time.
Forgery Nora forged the signature of her father in order
to save her husband through collecting money
for his medical treatment.
Sacrifice Nora made two sacrifices in her life one being
the sacrifice to be the perfect husband-serving
wife and the other one being the sacrifice of all
her domestic responsibilities to live
independently.
Concealment Nora concealed or kept a secret from Torvald
that she took a step for collecting money so

that Torvald could get his medical treatment.
Marriage The seemingly perfect marriage of Torvald and
Nora was actually based on the series of
sacrifices made by Nora to make the marriage
work.
Nora The character of Nora shows an awakening
from being the traditional devoted wife to the
New Woman of the society.
Money Money gives people false notions of being the
powerful person while it can also become the
reason of misunderstandings as portrayed in
the play.
Pet names Torvald used to call Nora by various pet names
such as skylark, squirrel and more. It seems
that he used to perceive Nora more as a pet and
less as a person.
Blackmail Krogstad blackmailed Nora after realizing that
Nora forged the signature of her father to get
the loan from him.
Doll motif Doll has been used as a motif that signifies the
condition of Nora in the house being trapped
within the four walls. She found her identity
when she left the doll’s house.