Nora

Question 1

first appearance

Answer 1

she seems like the perfect bourgeois wife

girlish extravagance, shown by her desire to spend Helmer’s new salary

Question 2

sulks

Answer 2

when Helmer points out that they shouldn’t be spending lots of money

uses moodiness to get her own way

Question 3

Nora and Helmer’s relationship

Answer 3

rests on his Paternalism and her childlike qualities

“takes her playfully by the ear”

her secrecy when eating macaroons is childlike

Question 4

sexual

Answer 4

she delights in the power her sexuality and attractiveness give her

Question 5

cosiness of the house

Answer 5

depends on any unpleasantness staying at a distance

Question 6

impractical

Answer 6

didn’t think in advance about the effect of borrowing a debt that she couldn’t repay

or the results of committing forgery

Question 7

her children

Answer 7

she undresses them because “it’s such fun” and plays hide and seek

Question 8

child-wife

Answer 8

of Helmer

uses sexuality to get her own way and is happy to be pampered and protected

Question 9

with Linde

Answer 9

she portrays herself as an energetic and supportive wife, capable of independent thought and action

Question 10

with Rank

Answer 10

she is flirtatious, amusing and youthful

Question 11

takes control at end of play

Answer 11

“our home has never been anything but a playroom”

looks at their marriage in a new light

Question 12

wedding rings

Answer 12

she hands back her wedding ring

now has to challenge reality

Question 13

her realisation

Answer 13

when she realises that Torvald will put himself and his reputation before her, she understands that she must now stand on her two feet

Question 14

as a child

Answer 14

she was her father’s “doll child” and he played with her

little change between the treatment of her father and Torvald

Question 15

influence of her father

Answer 15

“he told me his opinions about everything, so I had the same opinions”

Question 16

influence of Torvald

Answer 16

“you arranged everything according to your taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I pretended to”

Question 17

her development

Answer 17

has been criticised by reviewers, who claimed that it wasn’t a serious statement about women’s rights as the heroine of act 3 is an incomprehensible transformation from the woman in acts 1-2

Question 18

performance

Answer 18

“I must give a performance” (For Torvald & society) representing all women to that time

Question 19

play room

Answer 19

she knows nothing beyond the “play-room”, which both her father and Torvald have seen as her natural sphere.

Question 20

her relationship with Rank

Answer 20

in her relationship with Dr Rank she passes from sexual manipulativeness to honesty, at some cost to herself
as once she knew that he is in love with her, she aborts her mission to ask him for money - an ethical choice

Question 21

her personality

Answer 21

By the end of the play, Nora is aware that her personality has been constructed by others - by the men who love her, and beyond that by the male authority of the church.

Question 22

she treats Torvald

Answer 22

Nora would rather lie to Torvald than challenge him out of deference to his masculinity

Question 23

Nora is purely a

Answer 23

source of “enjoyment and pleasure” for Torvald - Baser, 2013

Question 24

Ibsen uses the Tarantella

Answer 24

as a motif for female sexuality and repression - Nora’s “hair comes down” and that fact that she “pays no attention to it” suggests a lack of adherence to the constrictions surrounding female appearance

Question 25

moral sickness

Answer 25

“moral sickness” Brooks, 2013

Question 26

interpretations of the Tarantella

Answer 26

1) suggested that it expresses her sexual self
2) manifestation of her suicidal impulses
3) feminist critic, Toril Moi, has suggested that it displays the torment of her soul

Question 27

it is possible to see Nora

Answer 27

as a representative figure, mirroring feelings that other women have experienced

Question 28

her realisation that

Answer 28

she has been living a lie could be “described as an anagnorisis” as in this moment she moves from “ignorance to understanding” - Stephanie Forward