What Nora thought was role-playing was in fact the entire reality. Of course, Torvald's reaction reveals that he's not in fact 'playing a role' at all-he really does put his reputation first, and he would never sacrifice it to protect Nora. Nora is certain that beneath the role Torvald is playing, that he loves her just as deeply as she loved him when she secretly broke the rules of society. In the final moments of the play, it's revealed that Nora's fear of the secret getting out is not a fear that she will end up shamed and punished, but rather is based on her certainty that Torvald will protect her by taking the blame, and in so doing will ruin himself. Yet this is an act of love that society condemns, thereby placing the rules of marriage above love. This creates a dilemma: Nora broke the rules of marriage, yet did so in order to save her husband’s life-a true act of love.

Linde that she went behind Torvald’s back by borrowing the money from Krogstad, and therefore has already broken both the law and the rules of marriage at the time. It is clear that Nora is expected to obey Torvald and allow him to make decisions for her meanwhile, it is important for Torvald’s career that he is able to show off a successful marriage to a dutiful woman.Īt first it seems that Nora and Torvald both enjoy playing the roles of husband and wife in a way that is considered respectable by society. Linde), it is nonetheless still governed by the strict rules of society that dictated the roles of husband and wife. Yet although Nora and Torvald’s marriage is based on love (as opposed to necessity, as was the case with Krogstad and Mrs. Rank was never married, and, it is revealed, has silently loved Nora for years. Linde were based on necessity rather than love, and were unhappy. Their loving marriage stands in stark contrast with the lives of the other characters: the marriages of Krogstad and Mrs. Nora talks joyfully about her love for Torvald, and Torvald refers to Nora using affectionate pet names. At the beginning of the play, Nora and Torvald appear to be very happily married, even to themselves. You are supposed to make up your own.As a play focused around the marriage between Nora and Torvald, A Doll's House can be seen as an exploration of love and marriage, or even, more profoundly, on whether there can be love in marriage. The way I sing it in the story is just MY version. If lots of people send me their versions, I will not be able to put them all up, but I would like to hear them even if I can’t put them on the site. If you send me your version, either as a tape or an audio file or a MR3 file, I will try to put it up in the LOVE YOU page. I would like to put different versions of the song up on this site, now that the site has sound on it. So far it has sold about 15,000,000 copies.Įverybody makes up their own song for this book. In fact, it turned out that parents buy it for grandparents and grandparents buy it for parents and kids buy it for everybody and everybody buys it for kids.Īs a matter of fact, everybody buys it for everybody. This is supposed to be a children’s book. It is selling in retirement communities where kids are illegal. It is selling very well in retirement communities in Arizona. One day the publisher called up and said “This is very strange. My regular publisher felt that it was not really a kid’s book and I ended up doing it with another publisher. Out popped Love You Forever, pretty much the way it is in the book. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn’t sing.įor a long time it was just a song but one day, while telling stories at a big theatre at the University of Guelph, it occurred to me that I might be able to make a story around the song.

For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn’t even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried. I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead.

Dora lawson just as long as you love me