A Doll House

        The play, "A Doll House," was a rather intersting one. When the play started off, Nora and her husband seemed to have a very happy relationship and home setting. Nora and her husband even joked around, and she would even act in foolish animal ways to please Torvald. For example, in Act 1 Torvald says to Nora: “Is that my squirrel rummaging around?” When he says this, Nora automatically does squirrel like actions, especially when Torvald starts handing out money to her. Truthfully, I found this odd and childish. Nora was basically being treated just like one of her own kids.
        After the first few parts of the play, I automatically started rethinking Nora and Torvald's "happy" marriage. I noticed that she was overly pleased with recieving money, and like I mentioned earlier, she would act in childish ways just to get an extra dollar from her husband. “Ten – twenty – thirty – forty. Oh, thank you, Torvald: I can manage no end on this” This, from Act 1, shows how money is basically the main reason Nora even acts in her squirrel-like ways. It's not only to please Torvald, but it also pleases Nora's wallet.
        As the play goes on, we soon find out how Nora borrowed money from Krogstand just to save Torvald's life. Nora tries extremely hard to keep Torvald from ever finding out her crime, though, Krogstand ends up ratting her out anyway. This is defiantly when it shows that Nora and Torvald's marriage isn't a happy one. He even threatened to ban Nora from seeing her own children! Though, once the crisis was all over and done with, and everything was back to "normal," Torvald believed his marriage should be back to normal as well. Nora thought differently. I would have to admit, I would feel and think differently as well. How could you say "I love you" to someone who never stands beside you through thick and thin? In Act 3, Torvald even calls Nora a featherbrained and stupid woman! "I'll be swept down miserably into the depths on account of a featherbrained woman." I don't believe a husband should never degrade the one he supposedly loves so much like how Torvald did.
        At the end, Nora leaves Torvald, their children, and her nice home. I can't say I agree with her for leaving her children, but I, personally, wouldn't be able to live with Torvald anymore. He is nothing but a superficial lover, and what he only cares what the public thinks of him.

Wild Nights! Wild Nights!

"Wild Nights! Wild Nights!" was one of the very first poems I have read that Emily Dickinson wrote. This poem shows a lot of passion and rapture that Dickinson wanted to express, and of course, her writing is the only way she truly expressed her feelings—physcially and emotionally. The following two lines from the poem shows Dickinson’s passionate dreams: “Wild nights should be, Our luxury!”

When I think of the word, “luxury,” I think of pure happiness or lust. I think this is why Dickinson used this certain wordage on purpose, of course, to furthur explain her passionate feelings.

            You can take and critique this poem in several different ways. It’s a short poem, and each word has a significant but big meaning. The very first two lines in the poem: “Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee,” makes me think as if Dickinson is thinking about past pleasures. The narrator was riminiscing about her past love, perhaps.
            Last but not least, I think when Dickinson used the lines, “Ah! the sea!,” she used the sea as a passionate wording because many people think of the sea or the beach in particular just as being romantic. Like I mentioned earlier, this is a short poem, though, each word has a big meaning.

            Over all, at first when I read this poem, I didn’t quite understand it. Once we talked about it in class, though, I grasped a better understanding of Dickinson’s writing type.