Paper 2 - A Doll's House - Quotes

“I am condemned to humiliation and ruin

simply for the weakness of a woman.” Helmer - Act 3.

“No man can be expected to sacrifice his honour, even for the person he loves.” (Helmer - Act 3)

“Millions of women have done it.” (Nora - Act 3)

“Oh Torvald I don’t really know

what religion means.” (Nora - Act 3)

“You’re talking like a child.

You don’t understand how society works.” (Torvald - Act 3)

“Our house has been nothing but a playroom.

Here I have been your doll wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll child.” (Nora - Act 3)

“Don’t be afraid.

I have broad wings to shield you.” (Helmer - Act 2)

“My poor innocent spine must pay for the fun

my father had as a gay young lieutenant.” (Rank - Act 2)

“Do I even have to tell you?

Your duties towards your husband, and your children.” (Helmer - Act 3)

“Don’t worry,

I have broad wings to shield you.” (Helmer, Act 1)

“A woman who

has sold herself once for the sake of others doesn’t make the same mistake again.” (Mrs.Linde, Act 3).

“My poor innocent spine must now pay for the fun

my father had as a gay, young lieutenant.” (Rank, Act 2)

“Home life ceases to be free

and beautiful once it is founded on borrowing and debt.” (Torvald, Act 1).

“I am to stand

on my own two feet if I am to get to know myself and the outside worlds, " (Nora, Act 3).

“Well surely it’s the sick are those who need care most?

Well there we have it, it’s that attitude that’s turning human society into a hospital” (Rank, Act 3)

“When I lost you it was

as though all solid ground had been ripped from beneath my feet. Look at me now, I am a shipwrecked man clinging to a spar.” (Krogstad, Act 3).

‘I don’t believe all that.

you’re just being hysterical and romantic. You want to find an excuse for self-sacrifice” (Krogstad, Act 3).

“Nora, often I wish

some terrible danger might threaten your life, so that I could offer my life and my blood, everything, for your sake.” (Torvald, Act 3).

“All your father’s

recklessness and instability, be quiet! All your father recklessness and instability, I repeat, all of it. He has handed to you!” (Torvald, Act 3).

“Oh Torvald, you have never loved

me for me, you have simply loved the idea of being in love with me.” (Nora, Act 3).