Identity, freedom, and self-realisation

Nora relishing crossing boundaries

“I always used to think it was terribly amusing to go down and talk to the servants...”

Nora about fun

“Well, you see, there are some people whom one loves, and others whom it’s almost more fun to be with.”

Nora’s willingness to do anything for Torvald

“I’ll do everything that you like, Torvald. I’ll sing for you, dance for you...”

Nora letting Torvald choose her costume

“But wasn’t it nice of me to give in to you?”

Nora’s compliance with Torvald’s wishes

“Your little skylark would sing in every room...”

Torvald belittling Nora’s words

“Now my little songbird’s talking just like a real big human being.”

Nora about Torvald’s doll

“I have the strength to change…/Perhaps—if your doll is taken from you.”

Nora as a human, not a woman

“I believe that I am first and foremost a human being, like you—or anyway, that I must try to become one.”

Nora’s sympathy for leaving Torvald

“...it hurts me to have to say it, because you’ve always been so kind to me.”

Nora refusing Torvald’s sacrifice

“You’re thinking I wouldn’t have accepted such a sacrifice from you?... That was the miracle I was hoping for, and dreading.”

Passing on of doll role from father to husband

“I’ve been your doll-wife, just as I used to be papa’s doll-child.”