Hide+and+Seek

Nora Helmer keeps secrets, and that is no secret in Ibsen's //A Doll House//. The hide and seek game she plays with her children in the begining of the play symbolizes the secret she hides from her husband and the secret she has been hiding for the last eight years of their marriage. Except in her real-life secret, the children don't find her, rather Krogstad does. As one source quotes "he is the game master." Krogstad determines the rules of the game and he has complete control. Krogstad finds Nora's faults and when his life started to go downhill, he used Nora to try to bring him back up. Nora's fault layed under her secrets and reluctance to admit the truth. Because Nora wouldn't tell and didn't want to tell Torvald, her husband, about how she borrowed money from Krogstad to pay for his restoration of health, she had to live with consequences.

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