Discuss the concept of sins of the father in relation to A Doll's House and AntigoneThe concept of inherited sin is in the most read book in human history appearing in the first chapter of the Holy Bible where Adam and Eve; the original man and woman eat the fruits of the Tree of Knowledge and are expelled from Paradise. It is the original sin that all humans have inherited, thus being born into a state of sin. This theme of inheriting evil from your parents is central to Sophocles' 442 BCE Greek tragedy Antigone, as it caused the problems that befall Antigone and her sister Ismene and influenced Haemon's actions. This is an important theme in the Norwegian realist play A Doll's House (1879) by Henrik Ibsen, which mainly concerns the characters of Dr. Rank, Krogstad, and the protagonist Nora. It seems unfair that anyone should be condemned for their ancestor's misdeeds, but this view is widely accepted in both works. Helmer, when justifying Krogstad's dismissal, summarizes his feelings on the subject: at one point, Krogstad committed forgery and Helmer believes it negatively affected his children: "an atmosphere like that infects and poisons all the life of a home. In a house like that, every breath of the children is filled with the germs of evil.” His banal speech has a pseudo-scientific justification for his opinions, but a moment later he declares that "almost all the young men who go the wrong way have had lying mothers", claiming as a lawyer to be an authority on the material. It seems more likely, however, that he was simply reflecting the conservative bourgeois values ​​of the time by trying to blame them for the social problems of the poor, but there is a terrible irony in what he says about "going home and poisoning his own children... ... middle of paper ... and his son", and caused the death of his mother, father and two brothers. Despite everything, she remains proud of it and would die to honor her brother who owns it. Before her death, she introduces herself as the "last daughter of your royal house" because she does not consider Ismene who fled her duty to Polyneices to have royal blood. Antigone dies easily because only in death can she rejoin her family and escape her cursed life. Likewise, in A Doll's House, Nora's children really love her. It is mentioned several times that they want to see her and that they like to play with her: “The children want to come to mommy – they ask so nicely. . The children are doomed to have their mother abandon them in the end, but they still love him for her, Krogstad's children are never seen, but what he does, he does for them and can we hope that they will return the favor..