A Doll's House Act 2 Quotes Flashcards
Nora: About Her Children and Theme of Distance
‘From now on I shan’t be able to spend so much time with them’
Nurse: Exclamation to Nora not being able to spend time with children. For/..
‘For Ever’
Nurse: Poor girl status in society
‘A poor girl what’s got into trouble can’t afford to pick and choose’
Nora: A dance she performs and the costume she wears symbolism
‘Dance the tarantella’
‘Now it’s all torn (her dress)
Nora: Opinion of Dr Rank’s father
‘His father was a frightful creature who kept Mistresses and so on’
Nora: Status of women of arrangements being easier for a particular gender
‘It’s much easier for a man to arrange these things than a woman’
Torvald: Idea of substitution to a man
‘Nice to give in to your husband’
Torvald: Reputation is…
‘Unassailable reputation’
Torvald: Speaking of protecting Nora when in a crisis
‘When the real crisis comes you wont find me lacking in strength, i am man enough to bear the burden for us both’
Rank: Discussing he is about to die
‘I am on my way out and there is nothing to be done about it’
Rank: Atonement of someone else’s sin
‘And all this to atone for someone else’s sin
Nora: Exclamation towards Dr Rank saying he loves her
‘Aren’t you ashamed of yourself now that the lamp has been lit’
Nora: Feeling of Torvald
‘I feel the same about Torvald as I did about papa’
Krogstad: Discussing what he could do to Nora
‘He knows what I can do to you, and yet he dares to-‘
Krogstad: Discussing death and the way you would look due to death
‘Under the ice? Down in the cold, black water> And then in the spring, to float up again, ugly, unrecognizable, hairless’
