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Act 1 Section 1: Nora and Torvald

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Setting?

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Comfortably, Tastefully… Not Expensively

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Nora’s Secrecy and Deception

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Hide the Christmas Tree

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Torvald’s anthropomorphism

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Skylark…Squirrel…Squanderbird

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Nora’s Childlike expressions

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“Lots and lots … Pooh”

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Torvald’s Capitalist views

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“Home founded on debts can never be a place of freedom and beauty”

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Act 1 Section 2: Nora and Mrs Linde

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Nora’s selfish remark

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All alone…How dreadful

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Christine’s remark on Nora’s Innocence (2)

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Have you not grown up yet?
You know so little about the hardships in life

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Christine’s view on the individual vs the self/Harsh societal boundaries

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One has to live and so one becomes completely egocentric

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Christine on the general hegemonic codes of Norway

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A wife cannot borrow money without her husband’s consent

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Nora’s sacrifice and protection of Torvald’s/The importance of societal acknowledgement

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He’s so proud of being a man

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Act 1 Section 3: Nora, Dr Rank, Christine

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Dr Rank’s irony (Talking about Krogstad)

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Morally sick… crippled… Twisted

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Dr Rank’s probing of Nora’s knowledge

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Do you really know what society is?

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Nora’s Facade cracks (Without Toravld’s presence)

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Bloody hell

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Nora’s Irony towards her children

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My baby doll

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Nora playing Hide and Seek with her children (Representative of foreshadowed hiding from Krogstad/ Hiding away from the truth)

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Nora hides under the tree

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Krogstad’s Experience of Restricted societal bounds/ Mentioning of ruthless hegemonic codes

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The law does not concern itself with motives

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Nora’s critique of the hegemonic codes

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The law must be very stupid

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Act 1 Section 4: Nora and Torvald

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Nora’s attempt to decorate her facade

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Busy decorating the Christmas Tree

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Torvald’s commentary on hereditary disease

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An atmosphere of lies contaminates and poisons every corner of

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Nora’s worry after Torvald’s comment on hereditary disease

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Corrupt my little children! Poison my home

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Act 2 Section 1: Nora, Christine and Torvald

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Setting? Particularly the tree?

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Stripped and dishevelled

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Nora’s repressed wishes

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I wish i could tear them into a million pieces

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Nora’s Physical Facade/A Doll to dress up

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Neapolitan Fisher Girl … Tarantella

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Nora on Dr Rank’s hereditary disease

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Terrible disease … Spinal Turbeculosis

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Torvald’s commentary on Nora’s father

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Not a man of unassailable reputation

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Act 2 Section 2: Dr Rank and Nora

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Dr Rank’s commentary on Torvald

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I know he hates anything ugly

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Dr Rank’s confession of love

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Do you think he is the only one who would gladly lay down his life for you?

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Dr Rank’s honesty on Nora and her deceit/ Commentary on her inability to find her true self

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You have misled me. You riddle me

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Act 2 Section 3: Krogstad and Nora

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Krogstad’s motives

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I was content to fight my way back inch by inch

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Krogstad’s power over Nora

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Your reputation is in my hands

38
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Nora introduces the motif of the…

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A miracle is about to happen

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Act 2 Section 4: Nora and the preparation of the Tarantella

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Nora’s way of breaking society confines

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Dances more and more wildly

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Torvald’s commentary on Nora’s wildness (2)

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You’re dancing as if your life depended on it
Sheer lunacy

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Act 3 Section 1: Mrs Linde and Krogstad’s reunion

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Mrs Linde’s priorities

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I was a helpless mother to take care of two little brothers

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The forgiveness and path to redemption proposed by Mrs Linde (2)

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Suppose to ship wrecked should could join hands
Better chance of survival together

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Mrs Linde embracing the Individual over society

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A woman who sold herself for the sake of other doesn’t make the same mistake again

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Mrs Linde’s Political Strife

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There must be an end to all these shiftings and evasions

47
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Mrs Linde’s Love and Belongingness (Maslow)

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I wont let this chance of happiness slip through my fingers

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Act 3 Section 2: Torvald and Nora after the Tarantella

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Torvald’s commentary of an exit after the Tarantella (Mockery of French Play/Reflect his old ways/Foreshadowing of Nora?)

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An exit should always be dramatic

50
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After Mrs Linde has left, Torvald’s lack of gentry

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Dreadful bore that woman is

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Torvald’s lustful remark

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You’ve still got Tarantella in your blood … Makes you more desirable

52
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Torval’d lustful remark

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You’ve still got tarantella in your blood … Makes you more desirable

53
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Torvald’s belittle of Nora again

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Scientific Experiement! … Big words for my little Nora

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Dr Rank sees through Nora’s facade (Uses Irony)

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If only the disguises are amusing
Spirit of happiness … Your wife needs to appear as her normal self

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Consequences for Dr Rank and his hereditary disease

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He wants to shut himself up in his house and die

56
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Torvald’s referral back to Nora’s father after finding out about the loan

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Your father’s recklessness and instability
No religion, No morals, No sense of duty

57
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Torvald’s Punishment of Nora

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The children are taken out of your hands

58
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Torvald’s true ambitions show after finding the ounce of hope that his reputation will not be wrecked

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I am saved

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Torvald’s condescending “Forgiveness understanding the reasons of her actions” (2)

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Inexperience … Feminine helplessness… I have forgiven you
Satisfying in knowing he has forgiven his wife

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The physical transition of Nora (from naivety to experience)

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Taking off my fancy dress … everyday dress

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Nora’s Anagnorisis (Ownership x2, Duty, Society, Stranger)

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Ownership -
First by Papa now by you
The children have been my dolls

Can you neglect your most sacred duties … My duty is towards my self
You don’t understand how society works … but i intend to
Living with a complete stranger … I could tear myself to pieces

62
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Referral back to the major motif

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Now the miracle will take place
Miracles of miracles … I don’t believe in miracles any longer

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Torvald’s rigidity in his beliefs constructed by societal status

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No man can be expected to sacrifice his honour, even for the person he loves

64
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Dramatic Exit foreshadowed

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Slammed Shut

65
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Motifs in A Dolls House

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Christmas Tree
Stove
Letterbox
Macaroons
Tarantella
Miracles
Doors

66
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What is the motif of the Christmas tree symbolic of?

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Nora and her mental state (her duplicity)
Appearance vs Reality = Decoration means blotting her anxieties
Family happiness and unity

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What is the motif of the stove symbolic of?

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Reflects her constant effort to escape her guilt
Relief, Warmth, Security

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What is the motif of the Letter box symbolic of?

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Letterbox = locked away from Nora - Torvald’s control
Route to freedom
Secrecy

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What is the motif of the Macaroons symbolic of?

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Deception, Secrecy, Disobedience
Rebellious
Rejection of social conformity

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What is the motif of the Tarantella symbolic of?

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Drops the facade of a perfect mild-mannered Victorian wife with no boundaries/limits
Performance of those who were bit by a tarantula

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What is the motif of the miracle symbolic of?

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False hope due to Torvald
True forgiveness attained through the hope that Torvald’s would take responsibility = Trust in the divine insitution of marriage based on love

72
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What is the motif of Doors symbolic of?

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Caged
Free choice vs determinism by social pressures

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