Act 1 Flashcards
Setting of the house, gender, women
(She tiptoes across and listens at her husband’s door)
Irony, debts, morality TORVALD
“A home that is founded on debts and borrowing can never be a place of freedom and beauty”
Morality as hereditary, disease, TORVALD
“It’s in your blood. Yes, yes, yes, these things are hereditary”
Reputation, appearance, setting NORA
“Oh there’s the doorbell (tidies up one or two things in the room)
MRS LINDE role of a woman, death and loss, employment, quid pro quo
“Just unspeakably empty. No one to live for anymore. (Gets up restlessly)”
Female pride, morality and sin, confidence, patronisation, female dynamics LINDE AND NORA
pg39 “And you are also proud for what you’ve done for your brothers” (N)
“I think I have a right to be” (L)
Male pride, double standards, secrecy, morality, foreshadowing NORA
“he’s so proud of being a man - it’d be so painful and humiliating for him to know that he owed anything to me…This life we have built together would no longer exist”
Claustrophobia, Sanctity of the house
Krogstad(in the doorway)
Morality and illness DR RANK ABT KROGSTAD
“He’s crippled alright; morally twisted”
doll, gender dynamics, irony NORA + TORVALD
Nora- “what kind of costume I ought to wear”
Torvald- “Aha so little Miss independent is in trouble and needs a man to rescue her”
Morality, sin, femininity, eve, separation between Nora and the children TORVALD
“Because an atmosphere of lies contaminates and poisons every corner of the home”…. “No, no, no don’t let them in”
