It’s important that you can write about the discussion Nora and Krogstad have about suicide. Krogstad says, ‘Most of us   that at first’ (Act 2, p. 72).

Ask yourself: What effect might this discussion have on the audience?

Possible answer: Melodrama often ended with the heroine’s suicide. Here the audience hears a reasoned discussion and can understand that this is a play about ordinary life, where events like suicide are relatively uncommon.