A Doll's House Act 3 Quotes

Question 1

Krogstad: Discussing Mrs Linde leaving him

Answer 1

‘But you had no right to cast me off for someone else’

Question 2

Mrs Linde: Life and poverty lesson

Answer 2

‘Life and poverty have taught me that’

Question 3

Mrs Linde: Selling herself for the sake of others

Answer 3

‘Who has sold herself once for the sake of others doesn’t make the same mistake again’

Question 4

Mrs Linde: Torvald must be told Nora’s secret- moral compass

Answer 4

‘Helmer must know the truth. This unhappy secret of Nora’s must be revealed’

Question 5

Nora: Being tired and using a metaphor for sleep

Answer 5

‘I am very tired, soon i shall sleep’

Question 6

Torvald: Possession

Answer 6

‘Treasured possession’

Question 7

Torvald: Mistress

Answer 7

‘I pretend to myself that you’re my secret mistress’

Question 8

Rank: Irony towards their peaceful home

Answer 8

‘What a happy and peaceful home you two have’

Question 9

Rank: Paying for things in life

Answer 9

‘Well you never get anything in life without paying for it’

Question 10

Rank: Imagery of a hat

Answer 10

‘Big, Black hat’

Question 11

Rank: Thanking her for the light

Answer 11

‘Sleep well. And thank you for the light’

Question 12

Nora: Discussing time of death being silent

Answer 12

‘When the time comes its best to go silently’

Question 13

Nora: Icy water

Answer 13

‘Oh the icy black water’

Question 14

Torvald: Rant to her calls her a liar and …

Answer 14

‘Hypocrite and a liar’

Question 15

Torvald: Discussing father reckless

Answer 15

‘Your father’s recklessness and instability’

Question 16

Torvald: Women weak

Answer 16

‘Weakness of a woman’

Question 17

Torvald: Nora his property in double sense

Answer 17

‘She has become his property in a double sense’

Question 18

Nora: A great wrong done to her

Answer 18

‘A great wrong has been done to me, Torvald. First by papa and then by you’

Question 19

Nora: Done nothing with her life- Torvald to blame

Answer 19

‘It’s your fault i have done nothing with my life’

Question 20

Nora: Playroom is their home and her a doll

Answer 20

‘Our home has never been anything but a playroom. I’ve been your doll wife’

Question 21

Torvald: Thought of what people will say

Answer 21

‘Have you thought what people will say’

Question 22

Nora: Sacred duties

Answer 22

‘What do you call my most sacred duties’

Question 23

Torvald: Talking like a child, society working

Answer 23

‘You’re talking like a child, you don’t understand how society’

Question 24

Nora: Women sacrifice for men

Answer 24

‘Millions of women have done it’

Question 25

Nora: Miracles would have to happen

Answer 25

‘Oh Torvald! Then the miracle of miracles would have to happen.’