Family+Relations

= Family Relations = In, A Doll's House, Torvald feels a great amount of pride for his wife and kids. He like most men during that time period were very proud of their honest, hard work. Many married men tried to set an example for their wife and kids by doing that honest, hard work and getting things like promotions to show how hard work pays off. Krogstad on the other hand was a cheating worker who tried to lie his way to the top of the bank. He was a man who had lost his wife and needed to support his three sons so he felt he needed to cheat to make money.

It is commonly thought that how the parent acts determines the future of their children. Nora knows that Krogstad had done similar crimes to hers, so she thought that if a parent really does corrupt their children with ill acts, it would be better for her to either die, or flee from her marriage and kids. Torvald was trying to give the shildren positive ideas to build off of, but he felt that Nora was corrupting them so her forbade her from raising them. This may seem extreme, but their idea of how morals are passed on from parent to child led them to believe that it is better for a parent to pay someone else to raise their kids, then have them corrupt their minds with their immoral deeds.

Money, jealousy, and lying make up some of the leading factors for people having poor family relations. The parents may not make enough money, making them greedy, or they may have too money, much making them frivolous with their transactions. So basicallly if you have a good understanding mother and father, with some morally sound children, your family will get along well without too much difficulty.

[|For more on family relationships within Henrik Ibsen's book, "A Doll's House", you can click this link to find more insight on how Nora and Torvald's family relationship was like.]