A Doll's House Flashcards
‘mine, mine alone…
…all mine’
Torvald - Act 3
‘A wife can’t borrow money…
…without her husband’s consent’
Christine to Nora - Act 1
‘my most…
….treasured possession’
Torvald Act 3
‘something glorious…
…is about to happen’
Nora (end of act 2)
‘forget…
…happiness’
Torvald (beginning of act 3)
‘it’s about saving the remains…
…the wreckage, the appearance’
Torvald (beginning of act 3)
‘I have been…
…performing tricks for you’
Nora (end of act 3)
‘it’s because of you…
…that I’ve made nothing of my life’
Nora - Act 3 (end)
‘the squanderbird is a pretty little creature…
…but what an expensive pet she is for a man to keep.’
Torvald
‘A songbird must have a clean beak to…
…chirp with - no false notes’
Torvald
‘No debts! Never borrow!…
… A home founded on debts and borrowing can never be a place of freedom and beauty’
Torvald
‘Is it against the law…
…to save my husbands life?’
Nora
‘He’s so proud…
…of being a man’
Nora
‘You’re a child Nora’ …
…‘You shouldn’t say that so patronisingly’
‘A guilty man that has to lie…
…has to wear a mask’
‘Your squirrel would run about…
…and do all her tricks if you would be nice, and do what she wants.’
Nora
‘Your skylark would chirp about…
…in every room, with her song rising and falling’
‘I would play the fairy…
…and dance for you in the moonlight, Torvald.’
cloying, saccharine,
SD: ‘pops the bag…
…of macaroons in her pocket and wipes her mouth.’
N: ‘You’re always right’…
… T: ‘Now my little songbird’s talking like a real human being’
N.B: use of ‘my’ not ‘you’. Possessive
‘Kick me off that ladder…
…and back into the dirt’
‘unspeakably…
…empty’
Mrs Linde
SD: ‘flicks him on the ear…
…with her stockings’
‘Dr Rank that was…
…really horrid of you’
‘He won’t dare…
…risk a scandal’
Krogstad
‘float up again…
…ugly, unrecognisable, hairless’
Krogstad to Nora
‘a hypocrit…
…a liar…a criminal’
What has Linde sacrificed for her loved ones?
- Her youth, perhaps this is why she feels without direction.
‘I am…
…saved’
‘I never had any opinions…
…but his’
**'’Your ___ wife’’
'’Papa’s ___ child’‘**
- Doll
‘my duty…
…towards myself’
‘I must make up my mind, which is right…
…society or me?’
‘Who would gladly…
…lay down his life for you’
