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A Doll's House quotes Flashcards

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“Has my little songbird been overspending again?”

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Torvald Helmer
Act 1

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“Ivar … a sword … a horse and trumpet for Bob. And a doll and cradle for Emmy”

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Nora
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“Has my little sweet tooth been indulging herself in town today, by any chance?”

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Torvald
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“Not even a feeling of loss or sorrow”

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Mrs Linde
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“No one to live for anymore”

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Mrs Linde
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“He’s so proud of being a man - it’d be so painful for him to know he owed anything you me. It’d completely wreck our relationship”

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Nora
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“There’s a moral cripple in with Helmer at this very moment”

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Dr Rank (about Krogstad)
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“What do I care about society? I think it’s a bore”

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Nora
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“Let me hold her for a moment Anne-Marie! My sweet little babydoll!”

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Nora
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“No, the strange gentleman won’t do anything to hurt mummy”

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Nora
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“I have no influence”

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Nora
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“So little Miss Independent’s in trouble and needs a man to rescue her, does she?”

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Torvald
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“An atmosphere of lies contaminates and poisons every corner of the home”

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Torvald
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“Nearly all young criminals are children of mothers who are constitutional liars”

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Torvald
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“You ought to give up this business with Dr Rank”

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Mrs Linde
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“Squirrel would do lots of pretty tricks for you if you granted her wish”

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Nora
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“Who would gladly lay down his life for you?”

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Dr Rank (expressing love for Nora)
Act 2

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“I have loved you as deeply as anyone else has”

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Dr Rank
Act 2

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“Now you know that I am ready to serve you, body and soul”

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Dr Rank
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“Even duns and hack journalists have hearts you know”

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Krogstad (uses Torvalds words, “hack journalist”, how did he know?)
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“You must testify that it isn’t true Christine. I’m not mad - I know exactly what I’m saying - and I’m telling you, no one else knows anything about this. I did it entirely on my own.”

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Nora
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“I can’t get anywhere without your help”

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Nora
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“My child shall have her way”

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Torvald (about Nora)
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“A woman chucking a man because something better turns up”

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Krogstad
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“You’re just being hysterical and romantic”
Krogstad Act 3
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“I need someone to be a mother to”
Mrs Linde Act 3
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“A woman who has sold herself once for the sake of others doesn't make the same mistake again”
Mrs Linde Act 3
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“This unhappy secret of Nora’s must be revealed”
Mrs Linde Act 3
29
“Costume”
Mrs Linde about Nora’s dress Act 3
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“She’s worth looking at”
Torvald Act 3
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“Knitting, now - that’s an ugly business”
Torvald Act 3
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“My most treasured possession” “that’s mine, mine alone, all mine”
Torvald Act 3
33
“I pretend to myself that you're my secret mistress”
Torvald Act 3
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“Those are big words for my little Nora to use”
Torvald Act 3
35
“At the next masquerade, I shall be invisible”
Dr Rank Act 3
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“You'll have to break them out of that habit”
Torvald (the children) Act 3
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“Often I wish some terrible danger might threaten you, so that I could offer my life and my blood, everything, for your sake”
Torvald Act 3
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“Wretched woman”
Torvald (Nora) Act 3
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“.. [your father] has handed onto you. No religion, no morals, no sense of duty!”
Torvald Act 3
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“The children shall be taken out of your hands. I dare no longer entrust them to you”
Torvald Act 3
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“I am saved! Nora, I am saved! … you too, of course!”
Torvald Act 3
42
“There is something so indescribably wonderful and satisfying for a husband in knowing that he has forgiven his wife … It means that she has become his property in a double sense … she is now not only his wife but also his child”
Torvald Act 3
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“Worries you couldn't possibly have helped me with”
Torvald Act 3
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“If I did have any of my own [opinions], I kept them quiet, because he wouldn’t have liked them”
Nora Act 3
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“I passed from papa’s hands to yours”
Nora Act 3
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“Our home has never been anything but a playroom. I’ve been your doll-wife, just as I used to be papa’s doll-child”
Nora Act 3
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“I must educate myself”
Nora Act 3
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“I must stand up on my own feet if I am to find out the truth about myself and about life”
Nora Act 3
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“But you’re blind! You’ve no experience of the world”
Torvald (AO4 link to Adam and Eve gaining knowledge and opening their eyes) Act 3
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“Most sacred duties”
Torvald Act 3
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“I am first and foremost a human being”
Nora Act 3
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“I don’t really know what religion means”
Nora Act 3
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“The miracle”
Nora Act 3
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“No man can be expected to sacrifice his honour”
Torvald Act 3
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“I’m not going to be satisfied with just getting back my job. I’m going to get to the top, I tell you.”
Krogstad Act 2
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“A man’s better at coping with these things than a woman”
Torvald Act 1
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“It was great fun, though, sitting there working and earning money. It was almost like being a man.”
Nora Act 1
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“Leave your home, your husband and your children! And you haven’t a thought for what people will say!”
Torvald Act 3
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“I am the most wretched of all my patients, Mrs Helmer. Lately, I have been taking stock of my internal economy. Bankrupt!”
Dr Rank Act 2
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“A man with a thing like that on his conscience will always be having to lie and cheat … he can never drop the mask”
Torvald Act 1

English Paper 1 (9 decks)

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