Key quotes Flashcards
(17 cards)
Quotes from Act one about money
• ‘Surely we can borrow in the meantime’
• ‘Nora a woman thou art! No debts! Never borrow!’
•Money ‘slips through your fingers’
•’A secure safe post: one with a generous income’
•’Daddy didn’t give us a penny it was I who raised the money.’
• ‘Working and earning money. It was almost as though I was a man.’
Key quotes about Nora and Torvald Act one
•’Song lark’ ‘Squirrel’ ‘spending bird’
• ‘Nora a woman thou art!’
• ‘How awkwardly humiliating it would be for torvald with his manly self-esteem knowing he would owe me something’
• ‘Nobody has such excellent taste as you’
• ‘Is little miss Willfull looking for a man to help her?’
Key quotes about the loan act one
• ‘Never borrow’
• ‘Daddy didn’t give us a penny it was I who raised the money’
• ‘ Im the one who wrote daddys name’
• ‘The trip was to save my husbands life I couldn’t abandon that!’
• ‘ The law does ask about motives’
Nora and her children act one
• ‘my sweet little doll’
•’sweet-little angels’
• ‘no no don’t let them come in here to me!’
• ‘corrupt my little children! Poison our home!’
Mrs linde and Nora act one
• ‘You didnt love your husband? Why did you marry him then?’
• ‘I didnt really see how i could justify declining his offer’
• ‘unspeakably empty’
• ‘you’re a child’
Krogstad in act one
• ‘Mrs Helmer, would you have the kindness prehaps to employ your influence for my benefit’
• ‘didnt you consider you were committing fraud against me’
• ‘eroded him morally’
• ‘morally destitute’
Nora and her children act two
• can’t be with them as much as before
• do you think they’d forget their mummy if she was gone altogether?
Nora and Torvald Act two
• Torvald and Dr Rank have been ‘bestfriends since they were young’
• ‘nice- for giving into your husband?’
• ‘your squirrel… run about and do tricks if you were nice and gave into her’
• Torvald says she has child-like anxiety’
Dr Rank and Nora Act two
• Dr Ranks father was a ‘revolting man’
• ‘my good friend’
• ‘it’s downhill for me’ his ‘internal status’ is ‘bankrupt’
• of course you can look higher up too
• ‘you shant see a scrap more because your naughty’
• ‘ do you think hes the only one.. who would gladly give his life for your sake’
• ‘really horrid of you
• Arent you ashmed now the lamps come in
• tremendously big favour
Krogstad and Nora Act two
• ‘hes aware of what he can expose you to yet he dares’
• ‘Least bit like Torvald Helmer to show that much manly courage’
• ‘thinking about running away from your house and home?’ Nora replies ‘I am!’ he says ‘most of us think like that in the beginning’
• he wants to ‘rise in the world’
• and has ‘control over the reputation you leave behind’
Mrs Linde and Nora act two
• ‘So you’ll be in disguise tomorrow nora?’
• your not your fathers daughter for nothing!
• ‘he wants me all alone in the beginning hed almost get jealous if I so mentioned any of the dear people from home’ - explains why he didnt know Mrs Linde
• ‘you are in many respects like a child still’
Krogstad and Mrs Linde Act 3
• ‘A man shipwrecked on a broken vessel’
• ‘sitting like a woman shipwrecked on a broken vessel’
• ‘nobody to grieve for, nobody to provide for’
• ‘someone to be a mother to and your children need a mother’
Dr Rank in Act 3
• ‘At the next masquerade I shall be invisible’
• implied he is going to die after he conducted his ‘scientific investigation’ on himself
Torvald before he finds out about the loan act 3
• knitting is ‘unlovely’ and you should ‘embroider instead’ as its ‘so much prettier’
• ‘my secret love, my ‘young fiancée’
• ‘young bride’
• ‘Aren’t I your husband’
• ‘my little nora talking about scientific investigations!’
Torvald and Nora once the loan is discovered
• ‘you creature of ill fortune’
• ‘inherited all your fathers frivolous attitudes, no religion, no morals, no sense of duty’
• ‘ill be ruined for the sake of a frivolous woman’
• ‘when im out of this world youll be free!’
Torvald to nora before she runs away
• you wont be allowed to bring up the children; i darent entrust you with them
• ‘ i wouldnt be a man if this feminine helplessness didnt make you doubly attractive in my eyes’
• ‘first and foremost a wife and a mother’
• ‘cant we live as brother and sister’
Nora before she runs away act 3
• ‘you dont understand me’
• we’ve never exchanged a serious word about serious things
• youve never understood me
• ive been your doll wife here just as at home i was daddys doll child
• neither of you ever loved me
• i am first and foremost a human being
• i realised that the man i lived w for 8 years was a stranger
• there duties are ‘equally scared duties’
