Alternate Ending!!

Helmer: [yelling] NO! Stop this instant!! Nora! [grabbing her arm]

Nora: [packing a small gun, yelling] Stop! Let me go!

(Around midnight, Nora leaves the house and closes the door behind her, begins to cry and run towards the cliff at the edge of town where she plans on commiting suicide, runs into Ms. Linde and Krogstad holding hands)

Ms. Linde: I hope you now see how it feels to be completley alone. The same way I felt... [smirking]

Krogstad: Kristina.. Shh.. c'mon, let's go..

Nora: [confused] No wait, what are you talking about?

Ms. Linde: [gradually raising her voice] It was I who told Nils to send the letter, even though he said he didn't want to! It was I who let Torvald know everything. And it was I who decided to make your life a living hell!! This is what you deserve!

Nora: [doesn't know what to say, confused, angry] Wha- What!! He never had to know!

Linde: Well now he does and there's nothing you can do about it.. [walks away]

Nora: [whispering] We'll see about that..

[Running towards Ms.Linde and the edge of the cliff]

Ms. Linde: Oh no you don't. [pulls out gun, points it at Nora's chest] I'm tired of all your bragging and tumultuous looks. [both backing up into the cliff] I'm going to give you exactly what you came here for.

Nora: Your capricious behavior doesn't surprise me but I think we were both a little prepared for tonight. [pulls out gun]

Ms. Linde: [confused] You really think you're going to kill me with that tiny thing?

Nora: Of course..[takes out one bullet, puts it in the gun, and cocks the hammer, smirks] 

Ms. Linde: [pulls up gun quickly, yelling] Wai-!

[Nora shoots, Ms. Linde lays on the ground, another gun shot is heard, then a loud splash is heard in the water, Nora floats to the top]

Krogstad: [drops his gun, saves bullet shell in his pocket, walks away]

   During Act 2, Dr.Rank tells Nora he loves her!! They flirt and do all types of raunchy things in the dark, but once the light comes on, Nora can't even look him in the face. "Flesh colored- aren't they lovely? The light's bad in here now, but tomorrow... No, no, no, you must only see the feet. Oh well, you may see the rest, too." If you're going to do something, you should do it with no regret. Nora knew it was wrong but she went along with it anyways.  Her disreputable actions cause most of her problems throughout the play. Her plan was to ask Rank for the money to pay off her loan, but once he told her that he was in love with her, she couldn't go through with it. I don't understand why she'd lead him on for so long if she wasn't going to go for what she wanted in the long run, the money.
   Krogstad sent the blackmail letter to Helmer and Ms. Linde was going to help her get it back. She was going to talk to Krogstad on her behalf, but we soon notice that they "had a past." Closer to the end of the act, Krogstad's threatening to kill her but she decides to make a miracle happen before Helmer or Krogstad can get to her. " Under the ice perhaps? Down in the cold black water? And then in the spring, you'll float to the top, ugly, hairless, unrecognizable-." Krogstad tells her this, but she isn't afraid. "Seven hours till midnight. Then 24 hours till midnight tomorrow. Then the tarantella will be over. Twenty-four and seven... Thirty-one hours to live." By the end of the act. Nora's decided to take her own life... Do you think she has the gut?!?

    This blog is a little late because I lost my log in info and it's going to be PINK!! Yaaay!! Act 1 is nothing like I thought it'd be. I actually didn't know what to think at the beginning of this play. I know many people might not have much nice to say about Nora but at the start of this book, I thought Nora would be this dependent, trophy wife. But reading more into it, I realize that she's a frivolous, paranoid, independent, hard-working, cheating liar! The way she takes things into her own hands and solves situations without needing the help of anyone amazes me. I wish I could be as confident as she is at times but it doesn't mean it's okay when she does it. She likes the feeling of having power, whether its flirting with Dr. Rank or working behind he husbands back. She once said, "Still it was tremendous fun sitting there working and earning money." She's overly confident and it makes her friendship with Ms. Linde difficult. Ms.Linde is right when she tells Nora off because she needed someone to put her in place. 
            Helmer on the other hand is gullible and some may say he's controlling. If he didn't react and "control" Nora the way he does, then she might act even more wildly then she does now. The way he contrabands macaroons, might be one of the ways he controls her. He acts like the father in the relationship and she acts like a daughter, rather than a husband/wife. The names he calls her might sound "disrespectful" to some people but I see them as playful. They've been married for a while so it could be okay in their case. Maybe he's just being straight forward and letting her nicknames be hints of how he feels about her. He obviously doesn't see them as equals though. "Nora, just like a woman." There are dozens of examples of where their relationship stands in the play but I'm sure you already know how they are. Do you think his actions are causing Nora to be the way she is??  

           Hi, my name is Christy Marte. I've never really hated english class, but now that I sit in the back my ADHD kicks in and I don't pay attention as much as I used to. I haven't hated anything so far, but I aslo haven't loved anything. It's not you Miss Santos, it's me. But then again, I don't think I've met a student that loves school.. This book sounds like it doesn't really relate to the author. He might've played with a doll house but I doubt it.. I don't know. The play could be about how he couldn't afford nice toys like this because of his poverty, or maybe about how he's always dreamed about living in a house like a doll's house. It might even be about a girl he likes!!.. that happens to own a doll house.. Just guessing. The only way I can think that this play relates to the author is that he's the one that wrote it. I guess we'll just have to wait and see...
          Anyways, Henrik Ibsen was born on March 20th, 1828 in Skien, Norway and died on May 23rd, 1906 in Oslo, Norway. He was the oldest of his siblings and his parents were Knud and Marichen Ibsen. His father was a merchant and his mother was a classical woman who loved to paint and play the piano. At 8, his family went through poverty and at 15, he dropped out of school and worked.
           He worked at the apothecary in Grimstad for 6 years. Ibsen wrote the play A Dolls House in 1868, after he moved to Germany. He then wrote Catilina which failed to become noticed. He also wrote alot of plays and around 300 poems that I decided not to mention. When he returned to Norway, he was a literary hero. When he died a few years later, his last words were, "To the contrary!" in Norwegian. He died an amazing writer and I hope I like this book as much as Ms. Santos likes it. She swears its amazing...

http://www.biography.com/people/henrik-ibsen-37014?page=3