A Doll's House & Rossetti

• "only lean on me"

  "I should not be a man if this womanly helplessness did not just give you a double attractiveness in my eyes" - Torvald
• "in the spring to flood up to the surface, all horrible and unrecognisable with your hair fallen out" - Krogstad
• "little Miss Obstinate" - Torvald
• "she has in a way become both wife and child to him. So you shall be for me after this, my little scared, helpless darling" - Torvald
• "I know that what you did, you did out of love for me" - Torvald
• "The child will have her way"

  "Be my own little skylark, as you used" - Torvald
• "Deprave my little children? Poison my home?" - Nora
• "being with Torvald is a little like being with papa" - Nora
• "I only feel my life unspeakably empty. No one to live for anymore" - Mrs Linde
• "It is no use lying to one's self" - Rank
• "Does it not occur to you that this is the first time we two, you and I, husband and wife, have had a serious conversation?" - Nora
• "You shall not have it; I will read it myself" - Torvald
• "you must give yourself up to me entirely this evening. Help me, Torvald" - Nora

  "you helpless little mortal" - Torvald

  "criticise me" - Nora
• "your skylark, your squirrel" - Nora
• "her hair comes down and falls over her shoulders" -> reflects sexual frivolity and madness
• "almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother" - Torvald
• "Thirty-one hours to live" - Nora
• "you have forgotten everything I taught you" - Torvald
• "but can't we live here like brother and sister?" - Torvald
• "nice little dolly children" - Nora
• "he called me his doll-child and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls" - Nora
• "my little squirrel/skylark" - Torvald
• "has my little spendthrift been spending money again?" - Torvald
• "You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me." - Nora
• "it seems to me as if I have been living here like a poor woman - just from hand to mouth" - Nora
• "it was his duty as a husband not to indulge me in my whims and caprices - as I believe he calls them" - Nora
• "our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child, and here the children have been my dolls" - Nora
• Aposiopesis: the device of suddenly breaking off in speech
• "You and papa have committed a great sin against me. It's your fault I have made nothing of my life" - Nora
• "From this moment, happiness is not the question, all that concerns us is to save the remains, the fragments, the appearance" - Torvald
• "It's shocking. This is how you neglect your most sacred duties?"

  "above and before all else, you are a wife and mother" - Torvald
• "a songbird must have a clean beak with no false notes!" - Torvald
• "Christmas tree stripped of its ornaments and burnt-down candles on it dishevelled branches" -> symbolic of Nora's mental deterioration
• "no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves" - Torvald
• "you talk like a child. You don't understand the conditions of the world in which you live." - Torvald
• "you are ill, Nora. You are delirious. I almost think you're out of your mind" - Torvald
• Nora turns to suicide when things go wrong, as Krogstad did -> theme in Ibsen's plays, Freud connection
• When is A Doll's House set?

  1879
• Rossetti was engaged twice and proposed to once, which she turned down -> all due to religious reasons
• What religion was Rossetti?

  Anglo-Catholic