A Doll's House Flashcards
1
Nora! Just like a woman. Seriously though, Nora, you know what I think about these things. No debts! Never borrow! There’s always something inhibited, something unpleasant, about a home built on credit and borrowed money.
2
I would never dream of doing anything you didn’t want me to.
3
Oh, what a glorious feeling it is, knowing you’ve got a nice, safe job, and a good fat income.
4
I am not so heartless that I would necessarily want to condemn a man for a single mistake like that.
5
When a poor girl’s been in trouble she must make the best of things.
6
A man’s better at coping with these things than a woman…
7
You can’t frighten me! A precious little pampered thing like you…
8
I want to get on my feet again, Mrs. Helmer; I want to get
to the top… For the last eighteen months, I’ve gone straight; all that time it’s been hard going; I was content to work my way up, step by step. Now I’m being kicked out, and I won’t stand for being taken back again as an act of charity. I’m going to get to the top, I tell you… It’ll be Nils Krogstad, not Torvald Helmer, who’ll be running the bank.
9
What else is there to understand, apart from the old, old story? A heartless woman throws a man over the moment something more profitable offers itself.
10
Helmer must know everything. This unhappy secret must
come out. Those two must have the whole thing out between them. All this secrecy and deception, it just can’t go on.
11
His suffering and his loneliness seemed almost to provide a background of dark cloud to the sunshine of our lives.
12
I wouldn’t be a proper man if I didn’t find a woman doubly attractive for being so obviously helpless.
13
Helmer must know everything. This unhappy secret must
come out. Those two must have the whole thing out between them. All this secrecy and deception, it just can’t go on.
14
The thing must be hushed up at all costs. And as far as you
and I are concerned, things must appear to go on exactly as before. But only in the eyes of the world, of course… From now on, their can be no question of happiness. All we can do is save the bits and pieces from the wreck, preserve appearances…
15
I believe that first and foremost I am an individual, just as
much as you are—or at least I’m going to try to be. I know most people agree with you, Torvald, and that’s also what it says in books. But I’m not content anymore with what most people say, or what it says in books. I have to think things for myself, and get things clear.
