Act 3 Flashcards
krogstad to mrs linde
When I lost you, it was just as though all solid ground had been swept from under my feet. Look at me. Now I’m a shipwrecked man, clinging to a spar.
Helmer about dr rank
He was so much a part of our life. I can’t realize that he’s gone.
His suffering and loneliness seemed to provide a kind of dark background to the happy sunlight of our marriage.
Well, perhaps it’s best this way.
helmer about Noras father
all your father’s recklessness and instability he has handed on to you! No religion, no morals, no sense of duty! Oh, how I have been punished for closing my eyes to his faults! I did it for your sake. And now you reward me like this.
helmer changing up and forgiving Nora
You can’t believe that I have forgiven you. […] I know that what you did you did for your love of me.
Nora about her father and helmers possersership of her
then I passed from papa’s hands into yours. You arranged everything the way you wanted it, so that I simply took over your taste in everything […] I performed tricks for you, and you gave me food and drink.
Nora and helmer about the miracle of miracles
Nora: (picks up her bag) Oh, Torvald! Then the miracle of miracles would have to happen.
Torvald: The miracle of miracles!
Nora: You and I would both have to change so much that – oh, Torvald, I don’t believe in miracles any longer.
marital rape
“Don’t want, don’t want-? Aren’t I your husband”
showing potential violence for the first time
Nora preforms for helmers desires
“All this evening I have longed for nothing but you. When I watched the seductive figures of the Tarantella, my blood was on fire… and that was why I brought you down so early”
helmer finding out Nora committed fraud. Calling her names
“What a horrible awakening! All these eight years- she who was my joy and pride- a hypocrite- a liar, worse- a criminal!”
Nora realisation she is a doll
“Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll wife just as at home I was Papa’s doll child”
Nora on her doll-like existence (p.67)”
the individuals pace within society. Nora being a independent icon
“That I don’t believe any more. I believe that first and foremost I am an individual, just as you are”
“I have another duty equally sacred…my duty to myself”
Torvald trying to trap Nora as a mother and wife.
Nors duties
“First and foremost, you are a wife and mother”
“Aren’t your duties your husband and children”
“sacred duties…to your husband and your children”
Nora blaming Torvald and her father
“I have been performing tricks for you, Torvald. That’s how I’ve survived. You wanted it like that. You and Papa have done me a great wrong. It’s because of you I’ve made nothing of my life”
HOW DOES THE PLAY END
‘[the street door is slammed shut downstairs]’
Nora and miracles , what is the miracle
‘I don’t believe in miracles any longer’
‘that life between us could become a marriage. goodbye’
I believe that before all…
I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being just as you are - or, at all events, that I must try and become one”
Helmer: But no man would sacrifice…
‘But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves.’
Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
mrs linde” i had a helpless mother…
‘I had a helpless mother to take car of and two little brothers, we couldn’t wait for you nills’
she meeds money
we two shipwrecked…
we two shipwrecked souls could join hands’
‘castaways have a better chance of survival together than on their own’
my most treasured…
‘my most treasured posession’ [..] mine, mine alone, all mine’ TORVOLD about Nora
torvolds fantasy
‘young bride’
‘taking you to my house for the first time’
‘young trembling and beautiful’
DR rank interrupts (knock on the door)
a hypocrite …
‘a hypocrite, a liar, worse- a criminal”
‘I am condemned to…
‘condemned to humiliation and ruin simply for the weakness of a woman’
‘we must appear…
‘we must appear to be living together just as before[..] the children shall be taken out of your hands’
