quotes Flashcards
(13 cards)
“doubly blank in a woman’s lot: I wish I were a man”
From the Antique:
laments emptiness of Victorian life
“I am first and foremost a human being”
Nora:
asserts her identity as human over duties of mother/wife
“Take my share of a fickle heart - mine of a paltry love (…) I wash my hands thereof”
Maude Clare:
scorning the grooms fickle love = relinquishing her claim on him / refuses to be trapped in a cycle of unworthy affection
washing hands = symbolic of final cleanse
- empowering!
“You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me”
Nora:
Torvalds affections was never true love but an illusion
Nora rejects his performative love, rooted in his own ego
= liberation
“I never said I loved you, John”
NTYJ:
female autonomy in love. Defying Victorian expectations of compliance in romance
“I do not love you anymore.”
Nora:
chooses honesty and freedom over false affection
“It is not pain, thus to kiss and die”
In the round tower at Jhansi:
contrasts Torvalds views on sacrifice - husband and wife embrace death = mutual sacrifice is painless in the face of love
Skene makes ultimate sacrifice
= committing the sin of murder so she doesn’t commit the sin of suicide.
“I am man enough to bear the burden for us both”
DRAMATIC IRONY
“no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves”
Torvald:
a mans honour outweighs love - selfish pride
MARXISM = capitalist ideology of self preservation and reputation over emotional connection
“I have desired and I have been desired/ But now my days are over of desire”
Soeur Louise de la Misericorde:
reflecting on the futility of earthly passion - desire = fleeting vanity reduced to “dust”
“Why shouldn’t I look at my dearest treasure? (..) mine, all my very own?”
Torvald:
treats nora as a possession - objectifying desire and ownership = result of downfall
“Doubly blank in a womans lot”
From the antique:
find purpose through domestic roles
“Can you neglect your most sacred duties (…) towards your husband and children?”
Nora is bound by the vows she made in marriage to look after her husband - women maintain the fabrics of society as their job is to look after the working class men
“stunting my hope which might’ve strained higher”
“I have desired, and I have been desired; / But now the days are over of desire”
Seour Louise de la Misericorde:
relationship with god would’ve been stronger if not for earthly desires
all human endeavour is pointless
parallels krogstad as they are both humanised through regret and vulnerability
“Now I am a shipwrecked man, clinging to a spar”
Krogstad:
subverts the Scribes formula for well-made play of stock characters
“buy from us with a golden curl”
Goblin market:
goblins are predatory and manipulative
- innocence and purity are commodified NOT redeemed
“If i get thrown into the gutter for a second time, I shall take you with me”
Krogstad
typical of a stock villains rhetoric / morally compromised antagonist
Noras secret is leverage for Krogstads gain
“I did not think I would be justified in refusing his offer”
Mrs linde
reality is that marriage is often a financial necessity for survival - sacrifice over romance idealism
“I only feel my life unspeakably empty. No one to live for anymore”
Mrs Linde
victorian ideals purpose for women = to care-give and sacrifice
“Buy from us with a golden curl”
Goblin market
commodification of female innocence and beauty - trading physical attributes for fruit = objectification
mirrors torvalds constraint and objectification of nora
“Youre mad to take offence”
NTYJ
“My garden mine”
Shut Out:
illusion - women have no ownership, she is kept by out
as “shadowless spirit “ prevents her
“(a bell rings … the door is heard to open … [nora enters] humming a tune)”
Nora has no key (she is already in her domestic sphere) she is passively accepting her role but her house also isnt hers / she has no ownership / autonomy
(T is equally as powerless - he CANNOT give N property just as much as she cannot get it)
“(The door slams shut)”
play is cyclical
portrays noras progression
nora : “Tra-la-la-la!”
childish
unorthodox
Linde is a parallel to Nora her shift is illuminated through her.
linde is unorthodox and resourceful
“I have learned to look at things practically.”
