A Doll's House Quotations

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Initial stage directions - comfortably and tastefully

‘A _____ and _____, but not expensively furnished room’

Nora / Christmas tree / any price… must know

“Hide that _____ _____ away” - First dialogue

“He mustn’t (know) at ___ ____ - no one ____ ____”

Torvald / little skylark… squirrel rustling… squanderbird

“Is that my // // twittering out there?…Is that my // //”

“Has my little // been overspending again?”

Torvald / debts… borrow… freedom and beauty

“No______! Never_____! A house founded on debts can never be a place of ______ and _______”

Child’s gifts

• Ivar

• Bob

• Emmy

____ - “a sword”

___ - “a horse and a trumpet”

____ - “a doll and a cradle” - “My sweet little baby doll”

Torvald / Expensive pet… Keep

“It’s incredible what an // // she is for a man to //”

Torvald / wish my darling… different / like a woman

“I wouldn’t ____ __ ______ to be any ________ from what she is”

“Oh, Nora, Nora, how ____ _ ____!”

Torvald / position… ample income

“It’s a wonderful thing to know that one’s ______ is assured and that one has _____ ____… Isn’t it?”

Mrs Linde / loss or sorrow… unspeakably empty

“Not even a feeling of ___ __ _____”

“Just _______ ____. No one to live for any more.”

Nora / loads of money… worry about

Linde / cover one’s needs

“its lovely to have ____ __ _____ and not have to ____ ____ anything” - ____

“It must be lovely to have enough to ____ ___ ____” - ____

Nora / wreck… relationship

“It’d completely ______ our ___________”

Nora

• spring… fresh… blue

“it’ll soon be _____, and the air’ll be ____ and the skies _____”

Dr Rank / being tortured… morally sick

“I still want to go on _______ ________ for as long as possible… it’s the same with people who are _______ _____, too”

Nora / Money… money

"_____. Give me _____ Torvald."

Dr Rank / Human society… hospital

“turning _____ ______ into a ______”

Nora / voice down… must never

"Keep your ____ ____. Torvald ____ _____ hear this."

Nora

• Papa… money

"Not one penny from ____. I found the _____. I did"

Nora / man… man’s pride… ashamed and humiliated

"Torvald is a //. He has a // //. He would be so // and // if he thought he owed me anything."

Nora / So proud… secret

"I've been ______ of my ______"

Nora

• died

"Papa ___ on the 29th of September"

Nora / Papa’s name

"I signed _____ _____."

Nora

• Run around and play… Do what I want

"Your squirrel will ___ _____ and ____ if you're kind and __ ____ _ ____"

Nora

• petty

"...because it's such a ____ reason"

Nora / Oysters

"Truffles yes. ______ as well?"

Nora / give his life

"There isn't a moment when he wouldn't ___ ___ ____ for me"

Nora

• husband… never know

"My ______ must ____ ____ anything about this"

Nora

• courage

"I have the ______ now"

Nora / skylark… flying

"Your _______ is _____ to you"

Nora

• Sleep well

"______ ____, Dr Rank...wish me the same"

Nora / wronged… by Papa

"I've been _______, Torvald, and so badly so. First __ _____ and then by you"

Nora

• Little doll… dolls

"He called me his _____ ___, and he played with me the same way I played with my _____. Then I came to your house-"

Nora / experience

"Then I must get ___________"

Nora

• duties

"My _____ to myself"

Nora

• stranger… bare

"I've realised I'd lived with a ______ for eight years and that I'd borne him three children - I can't ____ to think of it."

Nora / slams

"...door _____ shut..."

Torvald / Skylark chirping

"Is that the ______ _______ out there...?"

Torvald

• little spendthrift

"Tell me, you ______ _________"

Torvald / little… big difference / reputation… beyond reproach

"My // Nora there is a // // between your father and myself”

“Your father's // was not // //. Mine is"

Torvald / I’m petty

"You think __ _____?"

Torvald

• so nervous

"Are you really __ _____, darling?"

Torvald / little songbird

"What's happened to my ____ ______?"

Torvald

• prize possession.. watch

"You're my ____ ________, why can't I ____ you?"

Torvald / secret lover… young secret

"I'm pretending that you're my ____ ____, that you're my ____ _____ fiancée"

Torvald / black cross… announcing… death

"A ___ ____ above his name - look, What an appalling idea. It's as if he’s _______ his own ____..."

Torvald / reckless man… reckless daughter.. sense of duty

"Your father was a _____ ___ and you are his ______ ______...no ____ of ____" .

Torvald

• no experience

"...you have __ _______..."

Torvald / abandon… sacred duties

"can you ______ your most _____ ____ like this?"

Torvald

• duty… husband… children

"You have a ___ to your ______and your ______, don't you?"

Torvald / love me

"You don't ____ __ anymore"

Dr Rank / disturb… wife

"I won't ____ you my friend. I'll pop in and see your ___"

Dr Rank

• Macaroons… illegal

"_______? Aren't they _____in this house"

Dr Rank / downhill… nothing

"I'm going ______and there's _____ to be done"

Dr Rank / visiting card… black cross

"When I send my _____ ____ to you, with a ___ ___ on it, you'll know that then my terrible death has come calling"

Dr Rank / other beauties

"What ____ _____ shall I get to see?"

Dr Rank / secret… revealed

"The great _____ is ______"

Dr Rank / play

"Let me ___ for her"

Dr Rank / fancy dress… invisible

"At the next _____ _____, I shall be ______"

Mrs Linde / nothing… ounce of grief

"He left me _____, not even an ____ of ____"

Mrs Linde

• money… water

"Even in school you spent ____ like ____"

Mrs Linde

• child

"...you are a ____, Nora...."

Mrs Linde / cannot… husband’s consent

"A wife // without her // //"

Mrs Linde / business… Dr Rank

"You must stop all this ________ with __ ____"

Mrs Linde / Krogstad… money

"Nora- it was ______ who lent you the _____"

Mrs Linde / done anything

"He would have // // for me once"

Mrs Linde

• ask… letter

" You must not ___ for your _____ back"

Mrs Linde

• husband… have to

"Nora, tell your ______ everything. You ___ __."

Krogstad / influence… stop this

"I advise you to use your ______ to ____ ____"

Krogstad / your father… contract… death

"The problem is, Mrs Helmer, that ___ ____ signed this _____ three days after his _____"

Krogstad / law… motives

"The ___ has no interest in ______"

Krogstad

• gutter… keep me company

"If I'm hurled back to the _____ a second time, you will ____ me ______ there"

Krogstad / three of us

"It will be just between ourselves, the ____ __ __"

Krogstad / courage

“But I didn't have the ______ "

Krogstad / letter… husband

"I have a ____ here in my pocket for your _______"

Krogstad / frighten… fine spoilt

"You can't ______ me. A ____ _____ lady..."

Krogstad

• ugly, unrecognisable… hair fallen out

“In the spring… ____, __________, with your ____ ____ ___"

Krogstad / hysterical, high-minded… sacrificing

"This is a woman’s ______ ____-______ obsession with _______ herself..."

Krogstad / happiest… world

"I am the // man in the whole wide //"

Nora / duty… moods and caprices

“his ____ as a husband not to pander to my _____ and _______”

Nora

• working and earning… man

“sitting there ______ and ______ money. It was almost like being a ___”

Nora / proud.. man

“he’s so _____ of being a ___”