Studied by 15 people'my little...'
Helmer Act One
(Gender)
'my little… 'lark' 'songbird' 'squander-bird' 'squirrel'
'...how like...'
Helmer Act One
(Gender)
'O Nora, how like a woman!'
'…tired…pretty eyes &…'
Helmer Act One
(Gender)
'you don't have to tire your pretty eyes and delicate little hands'
'…proud...man…completely wreck'
Helmer Act One
(Gender)
‘he’s so proud of being a man’ if he knew about the loan it would ‘completely wreck our relationship’
'How on earth... influence'
Nora Act One
(Gender)
'How on earth could you imagine that I would have any influence over my husband?'
‘…can’t get…’
Nora Act One
(Gender)
‘I cant get anywhere without your help’
‘ship-…survival’
Mrs Linde Act Three
(Gender, love)
‘two ship-wrecked souls… better chance of survival together’
‘mine…x3’ (follows)
Helmer Act Three
(Gender)
‘mine, mine alone, all mine’ (follows her)
‘you’re… mistress’ /…’bride… /trembling…’
Helmer Act Three
(Gender)
‘you’re my secret little mistress’ ‘young bride’ who is ‘trembling and beautiful’
‘Don’t want?…husband?’
Helmer Act Three
(Gender- marriage)
‘Don’t want? Don’t want? Aren’t I your husband?'
‘she…property…double sense… not only…’
Helmer Act Three
(Gender- marriage)
‘she has become his property in a double sense… she is not only his wife but also his child’
‘sacred duties… towards yours’ Helmer
‘my…myself’ Nora Act Three
(Gender, marriage, familial obligations)
‘sacred duties… duties towards your husband and children’
‘My duty towards myself’
‘lean… counsel’
Helmer to Nora Act Three
(Gender)
‘Just lean on me I will counsel you’
‘first and foremost…’ Helmer
‘…human…like’ Nora Act Three
(Gender, marriage, familial obligations)
‘First and foremost you are a wife and mother’
‘I am first and foremost a human being, like you’
‘…true man.. feminine… doubly…’
Helmer to Nora Act Three
(Gender)
‘I would not be a true man if your feminine helplessness did not make you doubly attractive in my eyes’
‘…is slammed…’
Nora (stage directions) Act Three
(Gender, freedom)
The street door is slammed shut downstairs
(…macaroons…)
Nora Act One
(Maintaining appearances, concealment)
(hiding the bag of macaroons)
‘heaps… Oh God’
Nora Act One
(Maintaining appearances)
‘heaps and heaps’ ‘Oh God oh God’
‘dance.. dress… fool’
Nora Act One
(Maintaining Apperances, Gender)
‘dance and dress up and play the fool for him’
‘couldn’t…decide… go as… ought to….?’
Nora Act One
(Maintaining Appearances)
‘couldn’t you help me decide what I shall go as and what kind of costume I ought to wear?’
‘he must wear a mask…presence…’
Helmer about Korgstad Act One
(Maintaining Appearances, morality)
‘he must wear a mask even in the presence of those who are dearest to him’
(…Christmas tree… stripped)
Stage Directions Act Two
(Maintaining Appearances)
(The Christmas tree stands, stripped and dishevelled)
‘hates… ugly’
Rank about Helmer Act Two
(Maintaining Appearances)
‘he hates anything ugly’
‘…dare… risk’
Krogstad about Helmer Act Two
(Maintaining Appearances)
‘He wont dare risk a scandal’
‘his suffering loneliness… dark background… sunlight…’
Helmer about Rank Act Two
(Maintaining Appearances)
‘his suffering and loneliness seemed to provide a kind of dark background to the happy sunlight of our marriage’
(…dances more…)
Nora’s tarantella Act Two
(Maintaining Appearances, Gender)
Nora dances more and more wildly
‘happy and…’
Rank about N + H’s home
(Maintaining Appearances)
‘happy and peaceful’
‘…worth looking…? Isn’t…?’
Helmer to Mrs Linde about Nora Act Three
(Maintaining Appearances, Gender)
‘Isn’t she worth looking at?’ ‘Isn’t she beautiful
‘…bore…is’
Helmer about Mrs Linde Act Three
(Maintaining Appearances)
‘dreadful bore that woman is’
(takes off…) (in everyday…) ‘Yes Torvald…’
Nora Act Three
(Maintaining Appearances)
(takes off fancy dress)
(in everyday dress)
‘Yes Torvald I have changed’
‘…in …blood… hereditary…’
Helmer to Nora Act One
(Morality, inherited sickness)
‘it’s in your blood… these things are hereditary’
‘moral cripple…’
Helmer about Krogstad Act One
(Morality)
‘moral cripple… crippled all right: morally twisted’
‘poisoning… with his lies…’
Helmer about Krogstad Act One
(Morality)
‘poisoning his children with his lies and pretences’
‘… all young criminals… mothers… liars’
Helmer Act One
(Morality inherited)
‘nearly all young criminals and children of mothers who are constitutional liars’
‘corrupt… poison’
Nora Act One
(Morality)
‘Corrupt my children! Poison my home!’
‘his father…frightful… kept mistresses’ … ’Rank… sickly… was child’
Helmer about Rank Act One
(Morality)
‘his father was a frightful creature who kept mistresses… as a result Dr Rank has been a sickly child ever since he was a child’
‘all you father’s… handed on…’
Helmer to Nora Act Three
(Morality, inherited traits)
‘all your father’s recklessness and instability has been handed on to you’
‘…know… religion means’ ‘… can’t accept…laws’
Nora to Helmer Act Three
(Morality)
‘I don’t really know what religion means’ ‘I can’t accept that such laws can be right’
‘not even… sorrow’
Mrs Linde about death of husband Act One
(Familial obligations)
‘not even a feeling of loss or sorrow’
‘no one…’
Mrs Linde Act One
(Familial obligations)
‘no one to live for’
‘…foolish… save…?’
Nora Act One
(Familial obligations, sacrifice)
‘is it foolish to save one’s husband’s life?’
‘…their sake… respectability…’
Krogstad Act One
(Familial obligations)
‘for their sake I must try to regain what respectability I can’
‘hasn’t… the right… save…’
Nora Act One
(Familial obligations, sacrifice)
‘hasn’t a wife the right to save her husband’s life?’
‘miracle of…’
Nora Act Two & Helmer Act Three
(Familial obligations, sacrifice)
‘miracle of miracles’ N
‘miracle of miracles?’ H
‘terrible.. threaten… offer…sake’
Helmer to Nora Act Three
(Familial obligations, sacrifice)
wishes ‘a terrible danger might threaten you so I could offer… everything for your sake’
‘Yes… beginning…’ ‘…don’t believe…’
Nora to Helmer Act Three
(Sacrifice)
‘Yes. Now I’m beginning to understand’ ‘I don’t believe in miracles any longer’
‘gone…free’ Nora
‘assist… slightest’ Helmer Act Three
(Familial obligations, sacrifice)
‘When I am gone from this world you will be free’
‘wouldn’t assist me in the slightest’
‘no man… sacrifice…even…’ Helmer
‘millions…’ Nora Act Three
(Sacrifice, Gender)
‘no man can be exepected to sacrifice his honour, even for the person he loves’
‘millions of women have done it’
‘Hide… tree’
Nora Act One
(Concealment)
‘Hide the Christmas tree carefully’
‘no… certainly… promise’
Nora to Helmer Act One
(Concealment, secrecy)
‘no… Certainly not… Torvald I promise you’
‘…mustnt…’
Nora about Helmer Act One
(Concealment, secrecy)
‘he mustn’t know’ (about the loan)
‘…anyone been…?’ Helmer
‘…no’ Nora Act One
(Concealment)
‘Has anyone been here?’
‘Here? No.’
‘unhappy… revealed’
Mrs Linde to Krogstad about Nora Act Three
(Concealment)
‘This unhappy secret of Nora must be revealed’
‘must not… letter’
Mrs Linde to Krogstad Act Three
(Secrecy)
‘No Nils you must not ask for that letter back’
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