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A Doll's House Quote
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Hide the Christmas tree carefully" | Nora - Act One First line of the play - The Christmas Tree is used as a motif to represent Nora |
| "Is my little lark twittering out there?" | Helmet - Act One |
| "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" | Helmet - Act One |
| "What do you think I've got here?" ... "Money!" | Torvald and Nora - Act One Father daughter relationship |
| "you extravagant little person" | Torvald - Act One |
| "And I would not wish you to be anything but just what you are." | Torvald - Act One Wants her to stay submissive |
| "I should not think of going against your wishes." | Nora - Act One |
| "You had the best of intentions to please us all, and that's the main thing." | Torvald - Act One |
| "The last eight years have been a happy time for me, I can tell you." | Nora - Act One She is boastful of her life, even though she knows about Mrs. Linde's misfortune |
| "So you are quite alone. How dreadfully sad that must be." | Nora - Act One |
| "I mustn't be selfish today... do you know we have just had a great piece of good luck?" | Nora - Act One |
| "How painful and humiliating it would be for Torvald [â¦] to know that he owed me anything" | Nora - Act One |
| "Christine is [â¦] is frightfully anxious to work under some clever man, so as to perfect herselfâ" | Nora - Act One Nora manipulated Torvald's ego |
| "Nice?âbecause you do as your husband wishes? Well, well, you little rogue, I am sure you did not mean it in that way." | Torvald - Act One Nora is expected to do as she's told and to be subservient to her husband |
| "Well, we will share it, Nora, as man and wife should. That is how it shall be." | Torvald - Act Two Traditional values |
| "Surely you can understand that being with Torvald is a little like being with papa." | Act Two - Nora Father/daughter relationship |
| "We two need each other." | Mrs. Linde - Act Three Theme of marriage |
| "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 - Act Three Isn't true to his words |
| HELMER: "Noraâcan I never be anything more than a stranger to you? [â¦]" NORA: "Both you and I would have to be so changed that [â¦] our life together would be a real wedlock." | Act Three Nora says that after what's happened their marriage would never work |
| "I only feel my life unspeakably empty. No one to live for anymore." | Mrs. LINDE - she fulfilled a stereotypical female role |
| "I shall not allow you to bring up the children; I dare not trust them to you." | Torvald - Act Three Contextual point, women rarely won custody of their children |
| "I have other duties just as sacred. [â¦] Duties to myself." | Nora - saying her duties to herself are more important than her duties to her husband and children |
| HELMER: "No man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves." NORA: "It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done." | Torvald takes for granted all of the sacrifices Nora has made for him |
| Stage Directions: The NURSE comes in with the children. [â¦] HELMER: "Come along, Mrs. Linde; the place will only be bearable for a mother now! | Act One - Torvald avoids paternal responsibility |
| "Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother." | Torvald - devoid of all male responsibility. Placing the blame of evil entirely on women |
| "You're joking, my little Nora! You won'tâyou won't? Am I not your husbandâ?" | Torvald - expects Nora to have sex with him and gets angry when she says no |
| "I should not be a man if this womanly helplessness did not just give you a double attractiveness in my eyes." | Torvald - openly states he find weak women attractive |
| "You will still remain in my house, that is a matter of course." | Torvald expects Nora to play happy families |
| "Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife." |
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