ADH Quotes Flashcards
terms of endearment x3
“my little skylark”, “my little squirrell”, “Miss Sweet Tooth”
Loveless marriage
N: There are people one loves and others one likes to talk to.
love of an illusion
“You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.”
The duty of a woman
1.
H: Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties?….
N: I have another duty, just as sacred….My duty to myself.
- L: …I had a helpless mother and two younger brothers.
- A: When a poor girl is in trouble she must make the best of things.
Differing sacrifices between the sexes
- H: …But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves.
N: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
- L: When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
3.
H: I am saved! …You too of course
- K: It’s only a woman’s hysteria, wanting to be all magnanimous and self-sacrificing.
Humanity above womanhood
N: I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are–or, at all events, that I must try and become one.
Women having to fit masculine standards
N:…it was a tremendous pleasure to sit there working and earning money. It was like being a man.
Male control in women’s lives and the illusion of control
1.
N: …he used to tell me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinion…he used to play with me just as I played with my dolls… when I passed out of Papa’s hands into yours… I came to have the same tastes as yours.. or I pretended to. I’m not quite sure which…
2.
Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.
The desire to live
R: However wretched I may feel, I want to prolong the agony as long as possible. All my patients are like that. And so are those who are morally diseased..
Life without purpose
1.
K: When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground dissolved from under my feet. Look at me; I’m a half-drowned man now, hanging onto a wreck.
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L: I’m also like a half-drowned woman on a wreck. No one to suffer with; no one to care for.
…
L:Two on the same piece of wreckage would stand a better chance than each on their own.
Man’s possession of women, God-complex
T: There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying, to a man, in the knowledge that he has forgiven his wife…as if that had made her…doubly his own; he has given her a new life, so to speak; and she is in a way become both wife and child to him.
Rise of the individual
N: I am going to see if I can make out who is right, the world or I.
The laws as losing humanity…sympathy for Krogstad
- N:…the law is quite another thing from what I supposed; but I find it impossible to convince myself that the law is right.
2.
R: Why should I suffer for another man’s sins? What justice is there in that?
Religion vs society
H: Haven’t you an infallible guide in questions like these? Haven’t you your religion?
N:…I don’t really know what religion is.
Heritability
H: All your father’s irresponsible ways are coming out in you. No religion, no morality, no sense of duty…
