Key A Doll's House quotes Flashcards
Nora Quotes on Love
NORA: “Tell me, is it really true that you did not love your husband? Why did you marry him?”
No, it’s impossible! I did it for love’s sake.”
NORA: “You know how devotedly, how inexpressibly deeply Torvald loves me; he would never for a moment hesitate to give his life for me.” Act 1
Torvald quotes on love
HELMER: “Now you have destroyed all my happiness. You have ruined all my future.”
Mrs Linde’s quotes on love
MRS. LINDE: “Two on the same piece of wreckage would stand a better chance than each on their own.”
Torvald quotes on money
HELMER: “Bought, did you say? All these things? Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?”
Christine reason for not being with Krogstad
MRS. LINDE: “You must not forget that I had a helpless mother and two little brothers. We couldn’t wait for you, Nils; your prospects seemed hopeless then.”
Nora quotes on money
NORA: “Christine! It will be splendid to have heaps of money and not need to have any anxiety, won’t it?”
Mrs Linde about women borrowing money (p.11)
“a wife cannot borrow without her husband’s consent”
Nora being surprised that women cannot borrow money (p.24)
“Is a wife not to be allowed to save her husband’s life? I don’t know much about law, but I am certain that there must be laws permitting such things as that”
Mrs Linde discusses how she went to her husband (p.8)
“My mother was alive then and was bedridden and helpless, and I had to provide for my two younger brothers; so I did not think I was justified in refusing his offer
Nora explains what it was like for her to work (p.13)
“it was a tremendous pleasure to sit there working and earning money. It was like being a man”
Nora’s explanation on why she does not tell Torvald (p.12)
“how painful and humiliating it would be for Torvald, with his manly independence, to know that he owed me anything!”
Torvald explains what effect a deceitful mother has in children (p.27)
“Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother”
Torvald shows how lies affect home (p.27)
“an atmosphere of lies infects and poisons the whole life of a home”
Torvald and Nora’s conversation highlighting what is expected from women (p.70)
Helmer: But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves.
Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
Nora underlines that she is human as well (p.68)
“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”
