A Doll's House Act 3 Quotes Flashcards
Krogstad: Discussing Mrs Linde leaving him
‘But you had no right to cast me off for someone else’
Mrs Linde: Life and poverty lesson
‘Life and poverty have taught me that’
Mrs Linde: Selling herself for the sake of others
‘Who has sold herself once for the sake of others doesn’t make the same mistake again’
Mrs Linde: Torvald must be told Nora’s secret- moral compass
‘Helmer must know the truth. This unhappy secret of Nora’s must be revealed’
Nora: Being tired and using a metaphor for sleep
‘I am very tired, soon i shall sleep’
Torvald: Possession
‘Treasured possession’
Torvald: Mistress
‘I pretend to myself that you’re my secret mistress’
Rank: Irony towards their peaceful home
‘What a happy and peaceful home you two have’
Rank: Paying for things in life
‘Well you never get anything in life without paying for it’
Rank: Imagery of a hat
‘Big, Black hat’
Rank: Thanking her for the light
‘Sleep well. And thank you for the light’
Nora: Discussing time of death being silent
‘When the time comes its best to go silently’
Nora: Icy water
‘Oh the icy black water’
Torvald: Rant to her calls her a liar and …
‘Hypocrite and a liar’
Torvald: Discussing father reckless
‘Your father’s recklessness and instability’
Torvald: Women weak
‘Weakness of a woman’
Torvald: Nora his property in double sense
‘She has become his property in a double sense’
Nora: A great wrong done to her
‘A great wrong has been done to me, Torvald. First by papa and then by you’
Nora: Done nothing with her life- Torvald to blame
‘It’s your fault i have done nothing with my life’
Nora: Playroom is their home and her a doll
‘Our home has never been anything but a playroom. I’ve been your doll wife’
Torvald: Thought of what people will say
‘Have you thought what people will say’
Nora: Sacred duties
‘What do you call my most sacred duties’
Torvald: Talking like a child, society working
‘You’re talking like a child, you don’t understand how society’
Nora: Women sacrifice for men
‘Millions of women have done it’
