We discuss the concept of the sins of the father in relation to A Doll's House and AntigoneThe concept of hereditary 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 fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and are expelled from Paradise. This is the original sin that all human beings have inherited by being born in a state of sin. This theme of inheriting evil from your parents is central to Sophocles' Greek tragedy Antigone of 442 BC as it caused the troubles that befell Antigone and her sister Ismene, as well as influencing Haemon's actions. It is an important theme in Henrik Ibsen's Norwegian realist play A Doll's House (1879), pertaining mainly to the characters of Doctor Rank, Krogstad and the protagonist Nora. It seems unfair that anyone should be condemned for the misdeeds of their ancestors, but this view is widely accepted in both works. Helmer in justifying Krogstad's dismissal summarizes his feelings on the subject, at some point Krogstad's past committed a forgery and Helmer believes that this has negatively affected his children "an atmosphere like that infects and poisons the whole life of a house. In a house like this, every breath children take is full of evil germs." His hackneyed speech has a pseudoscientific justification for his opinions but a moment later he says “almost all young people who end up badly have had lying mothers” claiming as a lawyer to be an authority on the subject. However, it seems more likely that he is simply reflecting the conservative bourgeois values ​​of the time in an attempt to attribute the social problems of the poor to them, but there is a terrible irony in what he says about "going home and poisoning your children... . ...middle of paper...and son", and caused the death of his mother, father and two brothers. Despite everything, she remains proud of it and would die to honor the brother who owns it. Before her death she calls herself “the Last Daughter of your royal house” because she does not consider Ismene who shirked her duty to Polyneices to have royal blood. Antigone dies easily because only in death can she reunite with her family and escape her cursed life. Likewise in A Doll's House Nora's children really love her, it is mentioned many times that they want to see her and how they enjoy playing with her "the children want to come in on mummy - they ask so cutely". . The children are condemned to leave their mother in the end, but they still love her, Krogstad's children are never seen, but what he does he does for them and one can hope that they return the feelings.