Doll's house act 3

Question 1

sacred duties

Answer 1

This is monstrous. How can you neglect your most sacred duties?

and what do you call my sacred duties?

Your duty to your husband and children?

I have another equally sacred duty

you have not. what on earth could that be?

my duty to myself

Question 2

Doll realization

Answer 2

This house has never been anything but a playroom.
I have been your doll-wife, just as i have been Papa’s doll-child, and the children have been my dolls

Question 3

First and foremost

Answer 3

First and foremost you are a wife and a mother

I dont believe that anymore. First and foremost I am a human being, like you.

Question 4

Torvald’s stance on pride and reputation

Answer 4

no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves

but to leave your home, your husband, your children! have you thought what people will say???

Question 5

mental insanity?

Answer 5

I must stand on my own to feet if i am to find out the truth about myself and life

you’re out of your mind.
what kind of madness is this?

Question 6

physically ill?

Answer 6

Nora your ill, you’re feverish

i’ve never felt more sane and sure in my life

Question 7

Nora as a child

Answer 7

you think and talk like a stupid child

Question 8

feminine helplessness

Answer 8

i would not be a true man if your feminine helplessness did not make you doubly attractive in my eyes

Question 9

Torvald’s self zoomorphism

Answer 9

i have broad wings to protect you

i shall watch over you like a hunted dove

Question 10

Torvald on disowning

Answer 10

do you really think i could disown you

Question 11

what does Torvald says becomes of a wife post-forgiveness

Answer 11

she has become his property in a double sense: she is not only his wife but his child

my poor, helpless, bewildered little creature

i will be both your will and your conscience

Question 12

Nora passing as property

Answer 12

I passed from Papa’s hands into yours