RP+ADH: Marriage

Question 1

ADH:

‘Well, we will share it, Nora, as man and wife should. That is how it shall be’ ~ Torvald Helmer

Answer 1

RP:

‘Let is strike hands as hearty friends; no more, no less; and friendship’s good’ ~ No Thank You John

Question 2

ADH:
‘Surely you can understand that being with Torvald is like being with papa’ ~ Nora Helmer

‘He called his little dolls, and he used to play with me just as I played with my dolls. Then I came to live in your house’ ~ Nora Helmer

Answer 2

RP:

‘Your father thirty years ago/had just your tale to tell’ ~ Maude Clare

Question 3

ADH:

‘Nils, a woman who has once sold herself for another’s sake, doesn’t do it a second time’ ~ Mrs Linde

Answer 3

RP:
‘Buy from us with a golden curl./She clipp’d a precious golden lock,/She dropp’d a tear more rare than a pearl’ ~ Goblin Market

Question 4

ADH:
‘Do you know, Nora, I have often wished that you might be threatened by some great danger, so that I might risk my life’s blood, and everything, for your sake.’ ~ Torvald Helmer

Answer 4

RP:
‘Will it hurt much?’ — ‘No, mine own:/I wish I could bear the pang for both.’/‘I wish I could bear the pang alone:/Courage, dear, I am not loth’ ~ In the Round Tower at Jhansi

Question 5

ADH:

‘Christine is…frightfully anxious to work under some clever man, so as to perfect herself’ ~ Nora Helmer

Answer 5

RP:

‘Suppose there is no secret after all,/But only just my fun.’ ~ Winter: My Secret

Question 6

ADH:
When Helmer ‘takers her playfully but the ear’, it is the action of a parent and a naught infant. She relies on his paternalism.

Answer 6

RP:

‘You tell me of the future you planned’ ~ Remember

Question 7

ADH:
To tell Helmer the truth would ‘completely wreck our relationship. This life we have built together would no longer exist’.

Answer 7

RP:

Question 8

ADH:
‘The sound of a door is slamming is heard from below.’
‘4 doors leading out of the living room’

Answer 8

RP:

‘The door was shut. I looked between/Its iron bars; and saw it lie.’ ~ Shut Out