Nora: That our life together could be a real marriage. Good-bye. [She goes out through the hall.]
Alternate Ending:
Picking up from page 232.
Nora: That our life together could be a real marriage. Good-bye. [She begins to walk towards the door and opens it. As she is about to walk down the stairs she tumultuously
falls down the whole flight headfirst.]
Helmer: NORA! NORA! [Running
down the stairs.] Oh my poor Nora are you alright!?
Nora: Huh? [Makes a
moaning noise unable to speak.]
Helmer: Nora, my sweet skylark do not fear. [Rushes over to the telephone and calls an
ambulance.]
Nora: [Laying on the
floor unconscious.]
[The ambulance arrives
and takes Nora to the hospital. After a
couple of hours Nora regains consciousness.
The doctor begins to ask her about the incident. Helmer, Nora, a nurse
and the doctor are in the room.]
Nora: [Taking a couple
of minutes to think.] Please call my
lawyer. Helmer, get out of the room right now.
Nurse: [Calls Nora’s
lawyer.]
Helmer: [The doctor
tries to stave Helmer. He unwillingly
leaves the room.]
Lawyer: [Knocks on the
door and comes in. Closes the door on
his way in.] What happened Ms. Nora?
Nora: As I was about
to walk down the stairs, Torvald pushed me.
I fell down the stairs and was rushed to the hospital.
Lawyer: Oh my lord!
Nora we must take action against your husband’s harassment towards you! This is attempted murder!!!
Doctor: I must agree
with you. Pushing her down the stairs,
what a horrible thing to do!
Lawyer: I must call the police right now.
[Half an hour passes
and the police arrive at the hospital.
They are outside of Nora’s hospital room where Helmer was waiting.]
Policeman: [Pulling out handcuffs.] Torvald Helmer you are under arrest for
attempted murder of your wife.
Helmer: [Struggling to get out of the policeman’s
grasp.] What? I did not do anything to her! She tripped down the stairs as
she was leaving me, the children and everything she had at the house! I did not
even touch her!
Nora: [Screaming.] He treats me like a child,
like a doll. He thinks he has so much
power over me and doesn’t even let me eat macaroons. Just because he got a higher position as the
bank manager he will not listen to my opinions because he is worried that his
honor will be destroyed. He suppressed
me from finding myself and learning about the world. So I
decided to leave him and out of spite he tried to kill me.
Helmer: I did no such
thing; let me go!
[The policeman did not
listen and took Helmer away to the station.]
Lawyer: Ms. Nora do not worry we have taken care of your
husband. He will be put away in jail for
good. No trial is going to be held.
Nora: [A slight smirk
appears on her face. She quickly
pretends to be sad.] Oh goody, I
could not bear knowing that there was someone lose out there who was trying to
get me killed. I would never have
thought Helmer my own husband would try and hurt me.
Lawyer: Nora do not worry, you will get full custody
of your children, home and Helmer’s savings.
Helmer will be in jail for a very long time.
Your alternate ending had a very unique twist to the story. Having Nora put Helmer in jail was a good way for Nora to start a new life without Helmer.
ReplyDeleteI found your alternate ending to be very amusing. I especially liked your plot twist of Nora scheming revenge on Torvald for oppressing her. I also thought it was interesting that Torvald doesn't even get a trial before he's sent off to prison, haha.
ReplyDeleteI liked your alternate ending. I would never have expected Nora to be so devious and clever. When she fell down the stairs I was completely shocked. Although Helmer was horrible to Nora, I did believe that jail was a little extreme. Lol
DeleteNora blaming her accident on Torvald is really clever. I like that you brought out her resentment, which she probably suppressed throughout the play. Your ending closes up a lot of loose ends that the original didn't, like how Nora was going to provide for herself. I like your choice to have her receive custody of the children.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your ending. It took a very interesting turn when Nora accuses Torvald for attempted murder. I like how now she has her children and money to support her new life.
ReplyDeleteI found it interesting that you made Nora the villain and Torvald the innocent one. It makes sense that she would end up breaking bad after years of emotional and relationship trauma from being treated like a child by Torvald - but I don't think there were ambulances in the 1800's...
ReplyDeleteI left a comment on Noells, Danielle, Brianna and Nick's endings.
ReplyDeleteYou're ending, from the ones I read so far, is so unique. I didn't expect Nora to do something so cruel to Torvald at the end, assuming the position as the antagonist. Which kind of makes me wonder if she fell down the stairs on purpose.
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