Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:
1. Analyze Torvold. What made him the kind of person he became? 2. In what way is the Helmer marriage a reflection of the social conditions of the times? What is Ibsen attacking? How many remnants of the attitudes remain today? 3. Contrast Nora and Christine. 4. Explain why Dr. Rank is necessary to an understanding of the plot. 5. Discuss Ibsen’s use of setting. 6. Examine the thematic positions of the various characters and how they pair off or contrast. 7. Discuss all the men. Examine the contrasts.