A Doll's House

Torvald (Spend)

“What a little spendthrift you are!

Nora (money 1)

“Money!” “One-two-three-four”

Nora (If only)

“Hm. If only you knew how many expenses we larks and squirrels have”

Nora (wishes)

“You know I could never act against your wishes”

Torvald (poor)

“No, my poor little Nora”

Nora (money 2)

“We’re gonna have heaps and heaps of money!”

Nora (fancy)

“Yes little things - fancy work, crocheting, embroidery and so forth. And other things too”

Mrs Linde (slog)

“These last three years have just been one endless slog for me, without a moments rest”

Mrs Linde (papa)

“I have no pappa to pay for my holidays Nora”

Mrs Linde (child)

“Well, good heavens - those bits of fancy - works of yours - well, really! You’re a child Nora”

Mrs Linde (borrow)

“Well a wife can’t borrow money without her husbands consent”

Nora (man working)

“But it was great fun, though, sitting there and working and earning money. It was almost like being a man”

Dr Rank (morals)

“He’s crippled all right; morally twisted”

Dr Rank (Society)

“Do you really know what society is”

Nora (macarons)

“Torvald has forbidden them”

Torvald (mothers)

“Come Mrs Linde this is for mother’s only”

Nora (to her children)

“My sweet little baby doll!” “No, please let me; it’s such fun”

Nora (influence)

“How on earth could you imagine that I would have any influence over my husband?”

Nora (stage direction when with Krogstad)

“(Throws back her head and looks defiantly at him)”

Torvald (songbird)

“(Wags his finger) My little songbird must never do that again” “(puts his arm around her waist)”

Torvald (independent)

“Aha! So little miss Independent’s in trouble and needs a man to rescue her does she?”

Nora (arrange m V w)

“It’s much easier for a man to arrange these things than a woman”

Nora (tricks)

“Squirrel would do lots of pretty tricks for you if you granted her wish”

Torvald (reputation)

“Your father was not a man of unassailable reputation”

Torvald (Obstinate)

“Oh, nothing, nothing. As long as my little Miss Obstinate gets her way!”

Dr Rank (churchyard)

“Within a month I may be up there rotting in the churchyard”

Krogstad (mine)

“Have you and you husband though of mine?”

Krogstad (pretty)

“A pampered little pretty like you - “

Krogstad (Reputation)

“Have you forgotten that then your reputation will be in my hands?”

Nora (the dance)

“You see how much I need you?”

Krogstad (people)

“And you know what people think of me here?”

Mrs Linde (sold)

“Nils, a woman who has sold herself once for the sake of others does not make the same mistake again”

Stage Directions (after the dance)

“(Helmer leads Nora almost forcibly into the hall)”

Torvald (embroidery)

“You ought to take up embroidery” “It’s much prettier”

Torvald (treasured)

“My most treasured possession”

Torvald (mistress)

“I pretend to myself that you’re my secret mistress”

Nora (Leave me)

“Leave me, Torvald! Get away from me! I don’t want all this.”

Torvald (property)

“It means that she has become his property in a double sense… she is now not only his wife but also his child”

Nora (Tricks 2)

“I performed tricks for you, and you gave me food and drink”

Torvald (M and wife)

“First and foremost you are a wife and mother”

Nora (human)

“I believe that I am first and foremost a human being”

Nora (word)

“But what would my word have counted for against yours?”

Torvald (honour)

“But no man can ever be expected to sacrifice his own honour, even for the person he loves”

Nora (strangers)

“I don’t accept things from strangers”