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