marriage, male entitlement, and female independence

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“I too have something to be proud and glad of” - Nora to Christine

  • emphatic “too” - Nora’s need for recognition and an affirmed worth

  • AO4 - A Birthday - opposing forms of female fulfilment, WMS - women’s secrets as power and agency


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“There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt” - Torvald to Nora

  • modal construction “can be no” - Torvald’s financial outlook as an absolute truth

  • abstract nouns “freedom” “beauty”

  • AO4 - FTA - the domestic sphere as restrictive, Goblin Market - financial exchange and desire = female vulnerability


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“It was I who procured the money” - Nora to Christine

  • emphatic “I” asserts Nora’s agency

  • AO4 - Goblin Market - economic exchange as a form of female suffrage


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“It was like being a man” - Nora to Christine

  • simile explores how binary the gendered spheres of life are

  • AO4 - FTA - wishing to be a man for their freedom