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Torvald: “Oh Nora, how like a woman! …

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… No, but seriously, Nora, you know how I feel about this. No debts! Never borrow! A home that is founded on debts and borrowing can never be a place of freedom and beauty.”

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Nora: “You know I could never …

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… act against your wishes.”

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Torvald: “Yes, it’s a wonderful thing …

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… to know that one’s position is assured and that one has ample income.”

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Nora: “Oh, I often got so tired, so tired …

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… But it was great fun, though, sitting there working and earning money. It was almost like being a man.”

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Nora: “Oh, one has a little …

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… influence, you know. Just because one’s a woman it doesn’t necessarily mean that - When one is in a humble position, Mr Krogstad, one should think twice before offending someone who - hm!”

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Nora: “I’m not afraid …

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… of you any longer. Once the New Year is in, I’ll soon be rid of you.”

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Krogstad: “If I’m forced to …

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… I shall fight for my little job at the bank as I would fight for my life.”

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Krogstad: “My sons are growing up: …

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… for their sake, I must try to regain what respectability I can. This job in the bank was the first step on the ladder. And now your husband wants to kick me off that ladder back into the dirt.”

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Krogstad: “that was a difficult …

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… time for you, wasn’t it, Mrs Helmer?”

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Krogstad: “The law does not …

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… concern itself with motives.”

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Nora (soliloquy, christmas tree): “I’ll do everything …

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… that you like, Torvald, I’ll sing for you, I’ll dance for you -“

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Torvald: “Didn’t you say …

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… no one had been here? (Wags his finger) My little songbird must never do that again. A songbird must have a clean beak to sing with. Otherwise she’ll start twittering out of tune.”

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Torvald: “Aha! So little Miss Independent’s …

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… in trouble and needs a man to rescue her, does she?”

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Nora: “Yes, Torvald. I can’t get …

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… anywhere without your help.”

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Torvald: “I’m not so heartless…

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… as to condemn a man for an isolated action.”

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Torvald: “But Krogstad didn’t do that …

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… He chose to try and trick his way out of it. And that’s what has morally destroyed him.”

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Torvald: “how he must …

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… wear a mask even in the presence of those who are dearest to him, even his own wife and children!”

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Torvald: “Because an atmosphere …

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… of lies contaminates and poisons every corner of the home. Every breath that the children draw in such a house contains them germs of evil.”

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Nurse: “A poor girl …

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… what’s got into trouble can’t afford to pick and choose. That good for nothing didn’t lift a finger.”

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Nora: “Helmer wants me to go …

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… as a fisher girl and dance the tarantella.”

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Nora: “You see, Torvald’s so …

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… hopelessly in love with me that he wants to have me all to himself - those were his words. When we were first married, he got quite jealous if I as much as mentioned one of my old friends back home. So naturally I stopped talking about them.”

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Nora: “Squirrel would …

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… do lots of pretty tricks for you if you granted her wish.”

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Torvald: “If the rumour got about that …

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… the new vice president had allowed his wife to persuade him to change his mind - … As long as little Miss Obstinate gets her way - ! Do you expect me to make a laughingstock of myself before my entire staff - give people the idea that I am open to outside influence? Believe me, I’d soon feel the consequences!”

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Torvald: “When the real crisis comes …

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… you will not find me lacking in strength or courage. I am man enough to bear the burden for us both.”

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Nora: “Tomorrow, you’ll see …

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… how beautifully I shall dance; and you must imagine I am doing it just for you.”

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Nora: “You know how much …

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… Torvald loves me - he’d never hesitate for an instant to lay down his life for me - “

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Dr Rank: “Nora - do you think …

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… he is the only one - ?”

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Dr Rank: “Well, at any rate …

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… now you know that I am ready to serve you, body and soul.”

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Krogstad: “Now I’ve been chucked in the mud …

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… and I’m not going to be satisfied with just getting my job back. I’m going to get to the top, I tell you.”

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Krogstad: “Oh, you can’t frighten me …

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… A pampered little pretty like you - “

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Krogstad: “Under the ice? …

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… Down in the cold, black water? And then, in the spring, to float up again, ugly, unrecognisable, hairless - ?”

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Christine: “And your husband …

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… has the key?”

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Nora: “Correct me …

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… lead me, the way you always do.”

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Torvald: “But, Nora darling …

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… you’re dancing as if your life depended on it.”

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Nora: “You needn’t have bothered …

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… You can’t stop anything now. Anyway, it’s wonderful really, in a way - sitting here and waiting for the miracle to happen.”

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Krogstad: “Was there anything to understand? …

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… It’s the old story, isn’t it - a woman chucking a man because something better turns up?”

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Krogstad: “When I lost you …

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… it was just as though all solid ground has been swept from under my feet. Look at me. Now I’m a shipwrecked man, clinging to a spar.”

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Christine: “I need someone …

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… to be a mother to; and your children need a mother.”

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Christine: “Helmer must know the truth …

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… This unhappy secret of Nora’s must be revealed. They must come to a full understanding. There must be an end of all these shiftings and evasions.”

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Torvald: “What, not look at my most …

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… treasured possession? At all this wonderful beauty that’s mine, mine alone, all mine.”

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Torvald: “It’s because I pretend …

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… to myself that you’re my secret mistress, my clandestine little sweetheart, and that nobody knows there’s anything at all between us.”

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Torvald: “His suffering and loneliness …

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… seemed to provide a kind of dark background to the happy sunlight of our marriage.”

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Nora: “Let me go! …

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… You’re not going to suffer for my sake. I won’t let you!”

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Torvald: “I am condemned …

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… to humiliation and ruin simply for the weakness of a woman.”

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Torvald: “This thing must be …

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… hushed up at any price. As regards to our relationship - we must appear to be living just as before. Only appear, of course. You will therefore continue to reside here. That is understood. But the children shall be taken out of your hands.”

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Torvald: “Yes, yes, it’s true! …

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… I am saved! Nora, I am saved!”

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Torvald: “I would not be …

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… a true man if your feminine helplessness did not make you doubly attractive in my eyes.”

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Torvald: “There is something indescribably …

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… wonderful and satisfying for a husband in knowing he has forgiven his wife - forgiven her unreservedly from the bottom of his heart. It means that she has become his property in a double sense; he has, as it were, brought her into a world anew; she is not now only his wife but also his child. From now on that is what you will be to me, my poor, helpless, bewildered little creature.”

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Nora: “You have never …

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… loved me. You just thought it was fun to be in love with me.”

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Nora: “I’ve been your …

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… doll-wife, just as I have been papa’s doll-child. And the children have been my dolls … That’s all our marriage has been, Torvald.”

51
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Helmer: “First and foremost …

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… you are a wife and mother.”

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Nora: “I believe that I am first and foremost …

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… a human being, like you - or anyway, that I must try to become one … But I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.”

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Nora: “Yes, I can …

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… It happened this evening, when the miracle failed to happen. It was then that I realised you weren’t the man I’d thought you to be.”

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Torvald: “But no man …

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… can be expected to sacrifice his honour, even for the person he loves.”

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