Doll's House Flashcards
(14 cards)
Act One key quotes - Nora
A bell rings in the hall outside
“She tiptoes across and listens at her husbands door”
“It was I who saved Torvald’s life”
“When it no longer amuses him to see me dance and dress up”
“Almost like being a man”
“I’ve the most extraordinary longing to say ‘Bloody hell’!”
“I shall fight for my little job”
Act One key quotes - Helmer
“My little skylark”
“No debts! Never borrow!”
“How like a woman”
About T “It’d be so painful and humiliating that he owed anything to me”
“An atmosphere of lies”
“My little songbird must never do that again”
“Poison my home!”
Act one key quotes - Linde
“Much, much older”
“Not even a feeling of loss or sorrow”
“I didn’t feel I could say no”
“The last three years have just been one endless slog for me”
“A wife can’t borrow money without her husband’s consent”
Act one key quotes - Rank
“A moral cripple”
“It’s that attitude that’s turning human society into a hospital”
Pages 43-49
Act one key quotes - Krogstad
Pages 47-59
“The law does not concern itself with motives”
Act 2 stage directions
Christmas tree stands stripped and dishevelled
Act two key quotes - Nursemaid
“A poor girl that’s got into trouble can’t afford to pick and choose”
Act two key quotes - Nora
“Torvald wants me to go as a Neapolitan fisher girl”
“He got quite jealous…so I stopped talking them”
“I feel the same about Torvald as I did about Papa”
“Now we’re lost”
“Thirty one hours to live”
“Squirrel would do lots of pretty tricks for you if you granted her wish”
Act two key quotes - Helmer
“Do you expect me to make a laughing stock of myself before my entire staff?”
“You don’t realise what this may do to us all!”
“I am man enough to bear the burden for us both”
“You’re dancing as if your life depended on it”
Act two key quotes - Rank
“Nora - do you think he’s the only one”
“Helmer’s a sensitive chap”
Act two key quotes - Krogstad
“I’m going to get to the top”
“He won’t dare risk a scandal”
“I’ve been chucked back in the mud”
“It’s your husband who has forced me to act like this”
Act three key quotes - Linde
“I’ve learned to look at things practically”’
“Suppose we two shipwrecked souls could join hands”
“Give me something - someone - to work for”
Act three key quotes - Helmer
“My most treasured possession”
“I pretend that you are my young bride”
“Wretched woman!”
“A hypocrite, a liar - worse, worse - a criminal!”
“The children shall be taken out of your hands”
“I am saved”
“I have forgiven you”
“Not only his wife but also his child”
“No man can be expected to sacrifice his honour”
Act three key quotes - Nora
ANAGNORISIS
In her everyday dress “Yes, Torvald. I’ve changed”
“Sit down”
“A great wrong has been done to me”
“Doll-wife”
“Papa’s doll child”
“I must educate myself”
“I am first and foremost a human being”
“I can’t spend the night in a strange man’s house”
The street door is slammed shut
