A Doll's House Act III

Reading this final act was very revealing for me, because we saw Nora and Torvald show their true colors as they say. Nora was revealed to be a liar, because she hid the truth from her husband when he was sick in bed and she had to sustain the family all by herself. In truth I admire her on this fact because for a woman in that era to look for a way to commit fraud and then hide it for the time she did, it was just genius. Torvald on the other hand, always throughout the play showed to be a loving husband who would have given his life for his wife, reproched her for what she did, even if she did it out of love for him. I think that he felt that in part he was a little emasculated by his wife and that placed him in a position of vulnerability and humiliation. Nora towards the end became selfish, which I think was good considering the position in which she was left in front of her friends and family. Sometimes in life we have to be a little selfish so we can continue in life and do things correctly, which in the end will satisfy everybody, turning our selfish action into a selfless act. By leaving home Nora showed that she was willing to rectify her mistakes and if that she had to give up all that she loved for their sake being, then she loved them more because she allowed them to move on, and so did she with her life.

A Doll's House Act I & II

While reading this two acts of the play many things came to my mind, the word that I gave most emphasis was LIE. I read each page and all I could think of was how Nora by lying in the first place, for a good cause that was keeping her family afloat, had to keep lying and lying to hide that first one that I accept was not the best way to handle things. She commited a fraud by forging her father's signature after he was dead, which obviously would get out into the air at some point, hence that is where Krogstad enters the picture. He was an unpleasant man to begin with and by Nora being in his hands was a major problem for her, because he used her to get his way if not she wouldn't get hers. Also I couldn't help noticing how she felt a little flattered that Dr. Rank was in love with her. She suspected it, but when he told her she felt uncomfortable, which was a little confusing for me because if she suspected it in the first place, then she should have felt uncomfortable then too. Maybe it was the fact that she wasn't certain about his feelings that made her oblivious to her relationship with him. She played with his feelings and ended bad in the end herself. Also Torvald was a little sexist, because he saw Nora as a spendthrift as he called her, which for me is degrading because if I was in her place I would have felt as if he considered me as person who married him only for the money, but if namecalling was the only way Nora was going to get what she wanted then she was willing to submit to her husband's little pet names.

Othello Act III, IV, & V

Reading through this three acts of this play, was like riding a rollercoaster, anything could be expected. I don't know what was more maddening if the fact that Iago, by intrigues and suspicions, made Othello kill Desdemona, by making him think that she was having an affair with Cassio; or the fact that Iago kept using and manipulating people at his own will, and nobody never noticed it. Iago's motives were a little distorted because, why bother to make somebody's life miserable just because they didn't gave you what you wanted. I think that Iago had ulterior motives to act as he acted against Othello and everyone else, because aside from Othello, Iago made everyone's life miserable, because all of them had something to do with Iago's plan to make Othello miserable. Maybe Iago was a person who after all that he had done for Othello, just wanted some gratitude for his work, or perhaps he was a madman, or in a very remote part of his mind, a homosexual who was in love with Othello and could not accept it.