Torvald Helmer in “A Doll’s House” (character)
Anthony Hopkins serves to engulf the typical Victorian male, represented as Torvald Helmer, in Patrick Garland’s film A Doll’s House, based on Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll House. While reading A Doll House, it is apparent that Torvald Helmer is meant to be the foil of his wife Nora Helmer; shallow, overbearing, and demeaning. Before viewing the film A Doll’s House, I envisioned Nora to be a smaller, younger woman of the time. I imagined her hair to be pinned […]