A Doll's House Flashcards
(24 cards)
You know I could never act against your wishes.
Nora
Just unspeakably empty. No one to live for anymore.
Mrs Linde
It was I who saved Torvald’s life.
Nora
He’s so proud of being a man - it’d be too painful and humiliating for him to know that he owes anything to me.
Nora
Because an atmosphere of lies contaminates and poisons every corner of the home. Every breath that the children draw in such a house contains germs of evil.
Torvald
Nearly all young criminals are the children of mothers who are constitutional liars.
Torvald
Do you think they’d forget their mother if she went away from them - for ever?
Nora
There must be some escape - a way out - !
Nora
I feel the same about Torvald as I did with papa.
I want to get on my feet again, Mrs Helmer. I want to get to the top.
Krogstad
But, Nora darling, you’re dancing as if your life depended on it.
Torvald
My child shall have her way
Torvald
What, not look at my most treasured possession? At all this wonderful beauty that’s mine, mine alone, all mine.
Torvald
What a happy, peaceful home you two have.
Dr. Rank
What about me?
Nora
I would not be a true man if your feminine helplessness did not make you doubly attractive in my eyes.
Torvald
Taking off my fancy dress
Nora
Forgiven … It means that she has become his property in a double sense
Torvald
Yes, Torvald. I’ve changed.
Nora
No, don’t interrupt me. Just listen to what I have to say.
Nora
A great wrong has been done to me, Torvald. First by papa, then by you.
Nora
It’s your fault that I have done nothing with my life.
Nora
I must stand on my own two feet if I am to find out the truth about myself and about life.
Nora
My duty towards myself.
Nora
