RP+ADH: Women And Femininity

Question 1

ADH:
‘It is my little squirrel bustling about?’ ~ Torvald Helmer
‘Little bird’ and ‘Skylark’ ~ Helmer

Answer 1

RP:

‘Cat-like and fat-like, Ratel and wombat-like’ ~ Goblin Market

Question 2

ADH:

‘Tell me, is it really true that you did not love your husband? Why did you marry him?’ ~ Nora Helmer

Answer 2

RP:

‘You know I never loved you, John’ ~ No Thank You, John

Question 3

ADH:

‘I only feel my life unspeakably empty. No one to live for anymore.’ ~ Mrs Linde

Answer 3

RP:
‘For naught is left worth looking at/Since my delightful land is gone.’ ~ Shut Out

‘I wish and I wish I were a man:/Or better than any being , we’re not:/Were nothing at all in all the world.’ ~ From the Antique

Question 4

ADH:

‘(pale with terror)’ ~ stage directions about Nora

Answer 4

RP:
‘Skene looked at his pale young wife’ ~ In the Round Tower at Jhansi

‘But he was not so pale as you,/Nor I so pale as Nell./My lord was pale with inward strife,/And Nell was pale with pride.’ ~ Maude Clare

Question 5

ADH:

‘I have another duty just as sacred (as her duty to her husband and children)…my duty to myself’ ~ Nora

Answer 5

RP:

Question 6

ADH:
‘My goodness, it’s delightful to think of Christine! Free from care! To be able to be free from care, quite free from care’ ~ Nora

Answer 6

RP:

‘Take it or leave it as you will,/I wash my hands thereof.’ ~ Maude Clare

Question 7

ADH:
‘It was a tremendous pleasure to sit there working and earning money. It was like being a man’ ~ Nora

‘How painful and humiliating it would be for Torvald, with his manly independence, to know that he owed me anything!’ ~ Nora

Answer 7

RP:

‘Doubly blank in a woman’s lot:/I wish and I wish I were a man’ ~ From the Antique

Question 8

ADH:
‘She hastily drapes the shawl round her’ ~ stage directions about Nora

‘Torvald wants me to go as a Neapolitan fisher-girl, and dance the Tarantella’ ~ Nora

Answer 8

RP:
‘Today’s a nipping day, biting day;/In which one wants a shawl,/A veil, a cloak, and other wraps.’ ~ Winter: My Secret

‘Oh, vanities of vanities, desire’ ~ Souer Louise de La Misericorde

Question 9

ADH:

‘I could find - first a small shop, then a small school’ ~ Mrs Linde

Answer 9

RP:

Question 10

ADH:
‘She takes a packet of macaroons from her pocket and eats one or two; then goes cautiously to her husband’s door and listens.’ ~ stage directions about Nora

‘Puts the bag of macaroons into her pocket and wipes her mouth’ ~ stage directions about Nora

Answer 10

RP: