ADH Paper 2 Quotes

Question 1

Description of set in Act I (2 lines)

Answer 1

A room furnished comfortably and tastefully, but not extravagantly.

A fire burns in the stove. It is winter.

Question 2

Macaroons symbol

Answer 2

She takes a packet of macaroons from her pocket and eats one of two; then goes cautiously to her husband’s door and listens).

Question 3

Adjectives for Nora that Torvald uses

Answer 3

“Little lark”, “Little squirrel” “Doll”, “spendthrift”

Question 4

Torvald’s values that are a reflection of society

Answer 4

“No debt, no borrowing”

Question 5

Nora conforming to the ‘role’ she plays in front of Torvald

Answer 5

You haven’t any idea how many expenses we skylarks and squirrels have, Torvald.

Question 6

Stage direction of Torvald on page 10

Answer 6

wagging his finger at her

Question 7

First example of Nora and Mrs. Linde being opposites

Answer 7

Nora: No, not only what one needs, but heaps and heaps of money.

Mrs Linde: Nora, Nora haven’t you learnt sense yet? In our schooldays you were a great spendthrift.

Question 8

Mrs’ Linde’s condescending attitude towards Nora

Answer 8

You are a child, Nora.

Question 9

Mrs Linde’s condescending attitude toward Nora

Answer 9

You are a child, Nora.

Question 10

Quotes from talking about kids with Mrs. Linde & N

Answer 10

Nora: You must feel “relief”

I feel “unspeakably empty” inside

Question 11

Quotes from talking about borrowing between Mrs. Linde and N

Answer 11

“quarterly interest”, “payment in instalments”

“tremendous pleasure to sit there working and earning money. It was like being a man”

Question 12

Quotes from talking about kids with Mrs. Linde & N

Answer 12

Linde: not even any “sorrow or grief” to live upon

Nora: You must feel “relief”

Linde: I feel “unspeakably empty” inside

Question 13

Opinions on Krogstad

Answer 13

Rank: “moral disease”

Question 14

Krogstad’s motivation

Answer 14

It is “not only for the sake of the money; indeed, that weighs least with me in this matter”

“I was guilty of an indiscretion.”

“But now I must cut myself free from all that. My sons are growing up; for their sake, I must try and win back as much respect as I can in the town. This post in the Bank was like the first step up for me - and now your husband is going to kick me downstairs in the mud.”

Question 15

Opinions on Krogstad

Answer 15

Rank: “moral disease”

Helmer: each breath the children take in such a house is “full of germs of evil”

Question 16

Exposition Act II

Answer 16

“Christmas Tree in the corner by the piano, stripped of its ornaments and with burnt down candle-ends on its’ disheveled branches”

Nora “walking about uneasily”

“cloak and hat are lying on the sofa”

Question 17

Opinions on Krogstad

Answer 17

Rank: “moral disease”

Helmer: each breath the children take in such a house is “full of germs of evil”

Helmer: “moral failings”

Question 18

Nora and Dr. Rank

Answer 18

“tomorrow you will see how beautifully I shall dance and you can imagine I am doing it all for you”

“Silk stockings”

“you may have leave to look at the le

Question 19

Torvald and papa

Answer 19

“being with Torvald is a little like being with papa”

Question 20

Tarantella symbol

Answer 20

Symbol of distraction, seduction

Nora “dances wildly”

“Not so violently, Nora”

“You have still got the Tarantella in your blood, I see. And it makes you more captivating than ever.”

Question 21

Act III Exposition

Answer 21

table is now in “middle of the stage”.

“The door in the hall stands open. Dance music is heard in the room above.”

Mrs. Linde is sitting at the table idly turning over the leaves of a book.

Question 22

Krogstad and Mrs. Linde

Answer 22

“I am a shipwrecked man clinging to a bit of wreckage.

“I am like a shipwrecked woman clingo to soome wreckage - no one to mourn for, no one to care for.”

Question 23

Mrs. Linde - Mom

Answer 23

“Nils, give me someone and something to work for.”

“I want to be a mother to someone, and your children need a mother.”

Question 24

Stage direction

Answer 24

The door between the room and the hall remains open.

Question 25

Torvald finds out

Answer 25

“The unutterable ugliness of it all”

“No religion, no morality, no sense of duty”

“everything between us were as before - but naturally only in the eyes of the world.

“save the remains, the fragments the appearance-“

Question 26

Krogstad’s other letter

Answer 26

‘I am saved! Nora, I am saved!

“womanly helplessness did jsut give you a double attractiveness in my eyes”

Question 27

Nora explaining her decision to leave

Answer 27

“doll-wife” , “doll child, “children have been my dolls”

“Before all else I am a reasonable human being just as you are”

H: “The most wonderful thing of aall”

The sound of a door shutting is heard from below.