dollshouse quotes Flashcards
is that my skylark twittering?
zoomorphism to reduce nora to an animal
‘a home that is founded on debts and borrowing can never be a place of freedom and beauty’
secrecy / deception - however demonstrates ibsen’s views on marriage - it’s built on transaction
‘expensive pet she is for a man to keep’
patriarchal - torvald owns nora
‘you’ve gotten a little paler though christine. and perhaps a little thinner’
‘and older nora, much, much older’
nora’s pretend obsession with vanity + how the world has aged christine
‘oh god, christine, isn’t it a wonderful thing to be alive and happy!’
irony - clearly a facade as at the end of play nora says she was never happy
‘it was i who saved torvald’s life’
deception and secrecy
‘would you like a small macaroon?’
‘just a little one. two at the most’
metaphor for nora eating her own words - also nora’s suppressed rage, she rebels against him sometimes to bite her own tongue other times.
‘my sweet little baby doll’
cycle of treating the children like dolls - nora has been controlled and in response she seeks to control whatever she can
‘what costume i ought to wear’
control - dressing her like a doll
‘i shan’t be able to spend so much time with them’
the power torvald has in her influence over nora
‘squirrel would do lots of pretty tricks for you if you granted her wish’
nora puts herself in this powerless nickname + position
‘i am man enough to bear the burden for us both’
‘we shall share it’
explains itself rlly well
‘’takes her chin in his hand’’
belittling her
’stifled cry’
self repression
‘sheer lunacy’
lunacy linked with a monthly cycle - women seen has hysterical because of their cycle
