Act 1 Flashcards
Nora similar to her father
You’re a funny little creature. Just like your father used to be. Always on the look-out for some way to get money, but as soon as you have any it just runs through your fingers and you never know where it’s gone. Well, I suppose I must take you as you are. It’s in your blood. Yes, yes, yes, these things are hereditary, Nora.
what does torvold call Nora?
‘skylark’ ‘squander bird’ ‘squirrel’
Nora being ignorant of Christines situation
Oh, Christine, it’s such a relief! I feel so happy! Well, I mean, it’s lovely to have heaps of money and not to have to worry about anything. Don’t you think?
stage direction of Nora being childish
christine [strokes her hair]
Christines criticism of capitalist society
One has no one to work for; and yet one has to be continually sponging for jobs. One has to live; and so one becomes completely egocentric.
Nora is a child (Christine)
well, really! You’re a child, Nora.
torvolds masculinity
‘hes so proud of being a man’ so he would never borrow money from the bank
Nora a doll
‘I can play all day with the children. I can fill the house with pretty things’
krogstands morally crippled
‘hes crippled alright. morally twisted,’ dr rank says while groggy is speaking with helmer
Nora secrecy
‘hide and seek? yes les play hide and seek.’
Noras whole conversation with koch
she dominates dialogue at first and then frog takes over. she is exposed for what she did and seems almost proud of it. Nora is the moral corruption in her home not helmer which reverses the idea of angel in the house supposed to lead they husband to moral goodness
lots a nd lots of…
“You are going to have a big salary and have lots and lots of money”
the year In Italy/…
“[The year in Italy] saved Torvald’s life. But it cost a tremendous lot of money”
Mrs Linde about women borrowing money
“a wife cannot borrow without her husband’s consent”
Nora and the law. ‘is a wife not…’
Is a wife not to be allowed to save her husband’s life? I don’t know much about law, but I am certain that there must be laws permitting such things as that”
Nora explains what it was like for her to work
working and earning money. It was like being a man”
how painful and humiliating…
how painful and humiliating it would be for Torvald, with his manly independence, to know that he owed me anything!” nora
Torvald explains what effect a deceitful mother has in children. almost evryone…
“Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother”
krogstad the law
‘the ale does not concern itself with motifs’
Nora responds ‘the law must be very stupid’
krogstad threatens Nora
‘if I get thrown into the gutter a second time I shall take you with me’
torvols little miss…
‘little miss independent’s in trouble and need a man to rescue her’
krogstad morally …
‘moraly destroyed, ‘germs of evil
Nora defies torvold
‘hes afraid theyll ruin my teeth, bush dash it - for once’
‘bloody hell’
(hiding the bag of macaroons)
macaroons
She stuffs the bag of macaroons in her pocket and wipes her mouth.] Act 1: HELMER: “Hasn’t Miss Sweet Tooth been breaking rules in town today? […] taken a bite at a macaroon or two?” NORA: “No, Torvald.”
