Ibsen Quotes

Question 1

Torvald finding out

Answer 1

• “wretched woman!… do you understand what you’ve done?”

- “- a hypocrite, a liar - worse, worse - a criminal”

Question 2

Rank love

Answer 2

“I have loved you as deeply as anyone else has. Was that horrid of me?”
“I can’t possibly tell you now”
“Everything was so nice”

Question 3

Nora’s secrets

Answer 3

• “not a little nibble at a macaroon?”
• “no, torvald - i promise you, honestly - !”
• “one day i might yes… when i’ve lost my looks a little… when torvald is not as devoted to me”

Question 4

Krogstad & Christine

Answer 4

• “oh Nils, give me something, someone, to work for”
• “you and i need each other”
• “i am afraid of nothing with you”

Question 5

Nora & Torvald

Answer 5

• “my skylark”
• “my little squanderbird”
• “my squirrel”

Question 6

Stocking scene

Answer 6

• “i suppose you can look a bit higher”
• “you’re being naughty”
• “when i sit here like this being so intimate with you, i can’t think”

Question 7

Nora leaving

Answer 7

“When I am gone from this world you will be free”

“My duty to myself”

Question 8

Mrs Linde

Answer 8

• “someone to work for - to live for”
• “i thought it was my duty to destroy all the feelings you had for me”
• “castaways have a better chance of survival together”
• “i need someone to be a mother to”

Question 9

Nora women

Answer 9

• “i didn’t have any opinions of my own… you and papa have done me a great wrong”
• “it’s your fault that i had done nothing with my life”
• “i must educate myself”
• “it’s something i must do by myself. that’s why i’m leaving you”

Question 10

Torvald

Answer 10

• “being a lawyer is so uncertain… especially if one isn’t prepared to touch a case that isn’t, well, quite nice”
• “we’re going to have heaps and heaps of money”
• “a man should not be expected to give up his honour not even for the person he loves”

Question 11

Christine grief

Answer 11

• “and he didn’t even leave you anything?”

- “not even a feeling of loss or sorrow”

Question 12

Rank dying

Answer 12

• “i am the most wretched of all my patients”

- “i’ve been going through the books of this poor body of mine, and i find i am bankrupt”

Question 13

Nora suffering

Answer 13

• “i’ve been your doll-wife, just as i used to be papa’s doll child”
• “i haven’t ever been happy”