After revealing the information he can use against her, Krogstad flat out threatens Nora. At this point in the play, Krogstad is not only seeking to restore his reputation, but wants revenge if he cannot keep his job at the bank.
Nils Krogstad is, at least at the beginning, the antagonist of the play. Known to the other characters as unscrupulous and dishonest, he blackmails Nora, who borrowed money from him with a forged signature, after learning that he is being fired from his job at the bank.
Nora owes $ to Krogstad because he lent her money to go to Italy (for husbands health) and is currently being blackmailed because she forged her fathers signature and Krogstad wants to keep his job.
Krogstad threatens to reveal Nora's crime and thus disgrace her and her husband unless Nora can convince her husband not to fire him. Nora tries to influence her husband, but he thinks of Nora as a simple child who cannot understand the value of money or business.
Krogstad makes a confession to Nora that he is obligated to do the business Nora has already known, he means the forgery, because his children are growing up and, in order to be able to secure them, he must try to get back his position and his respect in the town at any cost.
It turns out that he is the person Nora borrowed money from. He's got a lot of power over Nora, because apparently she forged her father's signature after he was dead in order to get the loan. Krogstad threatens to expose Nora's crime if he loses his job. After he leaves, Nora freaks out.
Krogstad says that Nora has other things to worry about: he has figured out that Nora forged her father's signature on the promissory note. Krogstad informs Nora that her forgery is a serious offense, similar to the one that sullied his reputation in the first place.
Everything is going well for her until Krogstad enters the story. Then the audience learns that Krogstad, a co-worker of her husband Torvald, has the power to blackmail Nora. She forged the signature of her dead father when she obtained a loan from him, unbeknownst to her husband.
Unlike Torvald, who seems to desire respect for selfish reasons, Krogstad desires it for his family's sake. Like Nora, Krogstad is a person who has been wronged by society, and both Nora and Krogstad have committed the same crime: forgery of signatures.
What does Krogstad threaten Nora with? What does he do as he leaves her house? He threatens her by saying that he could tell an outsider about her crimes but he will keep her predicament between himself, Nora, and Torvald if he gets a better job at the bank. Krogstad also says that he controls her final reputation.
7. Krogstad's decision to not expose Nora's secret is not convincing, because as a character, he is very manipulative. Krogstad's shift from villainy to generosity is not adequately motivated, because he achieves his goals through threats and black mailing.
he is a lawyer who went to school with thorvald and he committed a crime called forgery and his reputation is ruined and he i trying to rebuild his reputation and he is about to lose his job with torvald and krogstad asks nora to convince thorvald of not letting him go.
Even though she loved Krogstad, Mrs. Linde believed she had to marry someone with money so that she could take care of her family. She sacrificed her own happiness and reputation in order to fulfill her duties to her family.
In the play, money symbolizes the power that the characters have over one another. In the first scene, Torvald's ability to dictate how much Nora spends on Christmas presents shows his power over her. Meanwhile, the debt that Nora owes Krogstad allows him to have power over her and Torvald.
Krogstad is different from Torvald because he is not as well off economically and socially and this leads him to try an extremer form of manipulation. Krogstad is desperate to keep his job at the bank and tries to get Nora to secure the job with her husband through blackmail.
Nora asks about herself, and he adds that she is also saved. He reveals that Krogstad has sent Nora's IOU back, saying his circumstances have improved and that he regrets what he did. Torvald rips up the IOU and throws it in the fire, telling Nora that nobody can do anything to her now.
In the first scene, the way Torvald dictates how much money Nora spends for Christmas shows the dominance over Nora whilst, Nora owes Krogstad debt which allows him to have power over her and Torvald. The way Ibsen has shown the importance of money and has been highlighted from the first scene of play till the end.
Torvald goes to retrieve his mail and notices that someone has been tampering with the mailbox lock using one of Nora's hairpins. Nora blames the children. In the mail, Torvald finds that Dr. Rank has left two calling cards with black crosses on them.
As the play progresses, the audience comes to learn that due to a sickness Torvald had in the past, Nora in order to pay for a trip needed to save Torvald's life was forced to take a loan from a rich man known as Mr. Krogstad.
What conflict does Krogstad introduce? Krogstad tries to blackmail Nora into getting Helmer to keep him at the bank by exposing her forgery.
If the marriage aim, as alleged by Kristine, is to take care of a disabled mother and younger siblings, then the marriage to her lover (Krogstad) equally fulfills this purpose: with mutual labor, they can sustain the family, albeit in poverty.
Rather than marrying the dashing young Nils Krogstad, she married a businessman, Mr. Linde, so that she could support her sick mother and her two younger brothers. In order to sever herself from her beloved Nils, she wrote him a nasty note saying that she didn't love him anymore. (A little harsh, Christine.)
Linde marries her husband for money so that she can support her sick mother and dependent younger brothers.
Years ago, Nora Helmer committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald.
In Act 1 of A Doll House, Krogstad tells Nora that “Laws don't inquire into motives” (1342) and Nora responds, “Then they must be very poor laws.” What Krogstad means when he tells Nora this is that no matter how good the intention or motives of a person are, if they break the law it is still illegal.