Widely respected, psychological theories demonstrate the effect of past experiences and relationships on the future. Henrik Ibsen clearly displays that concept through the characters and their personas in the play A Doll’s House. Everything is inherited one way or another, whether through the emotional treatment of Nora by her father, which correlates to how Torvald treats Nora; Dr. Ranks poor health physically inherited from his father; or Christine Linde’s inheritance accumulated by experience …showed first 75 words of 564 total…

…showed last 75 words of 564 total…from her disdainful father brings about her epiphany that she does not love Torvald. Rank’s illness coming about as a product of his father, leads to Nora’s awareness of her lacking emotional attachment to Torvald. And Christine’s relationship experience to lend a hand to Nora with the intention that Nora would find herself, all congregate to develop a theme of how a person’s past will directly affect the present or future.