Linde is a perfect setting, she makes the flow of the plot in a smooth and sensible manner. Just unspeakably empty.The character Mrs. Nora: How relieved you must feel. Such an easy admission demonstrates how, as with Nora and Torvald, marriage does not always include love or affection. Linde’s words reveal she doesn’t grieve her husband’s death, and we later learn that she married him out of convenience instead of love.
Christine Linde , who also needed money for an ill relative (her mother), did not commit a crime to obtain the money. Many important plays have similarities to oneanother regardless of the time in which they were written because of this fact.Linde is a friend of Nora's from their youth, but unlike Nora, Mrs. Linde’s careful and suspicious characteristic, she observes everything so It has been said that great works of drama have a universality about them, atimelessness all their own.
A play can havethemes about relationships, family, greed, secrets, among many others, all ofwhich have been around since the beginning of the storytelling tradition. Themes are universal in nature. An examination of the maincharacters, foil characters and taboo themes dealt with in each play will makethese parities more visible. Although they were written over a hundredyears apart they do show some similarities.
On Tidy Endings deals withthe themes of AIDS and homosexual relationships, which, in the late 1980s, wasnot a common topic of conversation. A Doll’s House deals with thethemes of a woman fulfilling her dreams and her dishonesty towards her husband,infrequently discussed subjects in the late 1800s. Ironically, while the privileged Nora wants to be independent, Mrs. Linde is the living embodiment of Nora’s assertion that women constantly sacrifice themselves for their loved ones. Firstly, there is the fact that both playsdeal with themes controversial in their times.Mrs.
Linde.June informs Marion of her options regarding her own situation. In On Tidy Endings, the character of June is the parallel toMrs. Firstly, the character of Mrs.Linde in A Doll’s Housereveals Nora’s choices to her, what she can do about her situation, and what sheshould do about it. Although foil characters in general reveal similarinformation, the similarities in A Doll’s House and On Tidy Endings are morethan just general. In addition to the themes the foil characters reveal similarinformation in the plays. Another, perhaps more obvious similarity in theme isthat many of them are the same.Relationships, honesty, family, crises andletting go are all common and major themes to both A Doll’s House and On TidyEndings.
Other common foil characters would be Jim andKrogstad. Lindeas relationship therapists. One could almost think of June and Mrs. Linde and June are most interested inare those of the main characters.
Marionis given a chance to make up for her mistakes, but Torvald is not. To digress a little, Torvald and Marion both realize the errorof their ways only after the fact, when the damage has already been done. Nora confronted Torvald afterhe ranted and raved about her behaviour and conduct.Nora and Arthur openedTorvald’s and Marion’s eyes to the realities of their relationships by usingcold, hard facts. Arthur got the courage to confront Marion about hernaiveté only after his husband passed away. One commonality between Arthur and Nora is thattragedy makes them stronger.
I thinkboth of these plays will be influencing young playwrights and people in generalfor a long time to come. What is it thatmakes these plays great? Is it their dramatic flair? Is it the depth of thecharacters, the seriousness of the issues, the drab settings? What could makeany piece of work seem like it was written by Shakespeare himself? I believe theanswer to all of these questions is to take a theme that people have beenhearing about and living with for ages, modernize it and add a little bit ofshock to get the heart going.These works are both influential in that they dotake a theme as old as time itself and put a contemporary twist on it. In short, the similaritiesbetween the plays A Doll’s House and On Tidy Endings are observable and surelyendless if one took to studying the plays at greater depth.
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