A Dolls House

Question 1

Is that my little skylark Twittering out there?

Answer 1

Torvalds Pet names - 
'little' asserts dominance
'My' indicates his possession of her.
Fathering her
Bird - represents her being in a cage.

Question 2

My little featherbrain.

Answer 2

Patronises her.
Indicates traditional gender roles of women not being on the same intellectual level as men and only useful around the house.

Question 3

Goes over to the stove

Answer 3

Submissive, complies with her role in the house, under her husbands power

Question 4

Plays with his waistcoat buttons

Answer 4

Flirtation - uses her womanly charm to manipulate and deceive her husband

Question 5

Lies about macarons

Answer 5

First indication of her ability to deceive and that she longs for her own freedom

Question 6

Didn’t little sweet tooth just look in at the confectioner’s

Answer 6

Condescending
Fathering her
Lack of trust
Expects obedience - possession
Treats her like a child.

Question 7

I wouldn’t do anything that you don’t like

Answer 7

Under the power of her husband - controlled by him

Question 8

You did your best to please us

Answer 8

The woman’s role in the family to nurture and entertain everyone. First connection with the dolls house metaphor as she is considered almost a form of entertainment

Question 9

You’re only a baby Nora

Answer 9

Indicates her innocence of her situation.

Materialistic and apparently content under her husband

Question 10

Pooh where would be the glory in that

Answer 10

Indicates a desire for independence and ability to do things herself

Question 11

He’d be terribly hurt and humiliated if he felt he ever owed anything to me

Answer 11

Men are meant to be in control of women

Question 12

It’s almost like being a man

Answer 12

Desire to escape her constricting life

Question 13

Christmas tree - fresh and decorated in the beginning, stripped, disheveled and burnt out in middle.

Answer 13

Reflects Nora before her deception is exposed and before she begins to understand her lack of freedom, and after she had been exposed and began to panic and realise her situation. Reflects her feelings of confusion and fear of what will become of her

Question 14

Torvalds so incredibly fond of me he wants to keep me all to himself

Answer 14

Convinces herself of Torvalds love for her

Question 15

How could you be so clumsy dr rank, when everything was going so well

Answer 15

After rank declares his love for her she realises that she doesn’t love Torvald but finds it easy to love him because he provides her with stability and identity. Women are nothing without a man, convenient to be with Torvald

Question 16

Your husband can’t love you very much, can he? He knows I can expose you.

Answer 16

Krogstad makes Nora realise that she is wilfully ignorant of her situation

Question 17

But Nora darling you are dancing as if your life depended on it.

Answer 17

She had to be perfect and entertaining to survive

Torvald is all about appearances

Question 18

My arm round my lovely little Capri girl

Answer 18

She is a trophy

Question 19

All this beauty that belongs to no one but me

Answer 19

Possession

Question 20

There’s something undeniably sweet and satisfying for a man knowing deep down he had forgiven his wife

Answer 20

Making himself the hero

Question 21

You never loved me, you only found it pleasant to be in love with me

Answer 21

Awakening

Question 22

But our home has just been a play room I’ve been you doll wife here just as at home I was papas doll child and the children had been my dolls in turn I liked it when you played with me just as they liked it when I came and played with them that’s what our marriage has been

Answer 22

She was controlled by all the men in her life and has been nothing more than a trophy or entertainment

Question 23

You and papa have committed a Grievous sin against me, it’s your fault I made nothing of my life.

Answer 23

Was prevented from living due to the patriarchy

Question 24

I believe that before anything else I am a human being. Just as much as you are

Answer 24

Door slamming at end

Finality

Question 25

When Torvald isn’t as fond of me as he is now - when all my dancing and dressing up don’t amuse him any longer

Answer 25

Beginning to awaken and realise that she is only seen as a commodity or entertainment

Question 26

Macaroon

Answer 26

Unconsciously represents Nora’s desire for independence as she insists on eating them despite her husband explicitly telling her not to.