A Dolls House

• 'Hide the Christmas tree'- Nora 


  A play about secrets
• 'is that my little lark twittering out there?'-Helmer

  undermining and possessive adjective describing Nora
• 'I am not going to be ordered around by anyone!' -Nora
• 'you are so like your father, he was just as bad'- Helmer
• 'I have been living with lies, deceit and hypocrisy all these years'- Nora
• 'I have been so happy these last few years, Torvald! So terribly happy!' -Nora
• 'I have no right to judge him'- Krogstad
• 'I will never forgive myself if anything happens to her'-Krogstad
• 'i will never live with a lie again'- Nora
• 'I don’t want to be dependent on anybody, and you know that very well.' -Nora
• 'she is nothing but a child'-Helmer
• 'a woman cannot be herself in modern society'- Nora
• 'I can’t go on any longer being this kind of wife and mother.' -Nora
• 'i will never let her go'- Helmer
• 'it would have been better if she had died'- Helmer
• 'the most important thing was to keep up appearances'- Nora
• 'dolls house'


  A metaphorical representation of how Nora feels like a caricature of a stereotypical victorian housewife (a criticism of marriage)
• 'my little lark'


  adjective in 'little' and the possessive pronoun in 'lark'
• 'takes her playfully by the ear'


  objectification correlating to her being perceived as a doll
• In the 19th century when the play was established, marriage and love did not coincide due to the fact that marriage was more based upon selling the female from father to husband to gain reputation, instead of actual love
• 'you have forgotten everything I have taught you'


  helmers possessive and demanding qualities
• 'Not a single minute my sweet nora'


  denying her to stay at the tarantella, control
• ' we can't spend money recklessly'


  the prominent fear helmer has of disgrace among his peers
• 'from now on forget happiness. Now its just about saving the remains, the wreckage, the appearance'


  helmer only cares to save his reputation not his love in Nora
• 'this is simply incredible obstinacy'


  helmers view when Nora asked if he could keep krogstad in the business
• 'laughing stock'


  what helmer fears of becoming
• 'I was the one responsible for it,' 'I was the man'


  Noras subversion of typical female characteristics
• 'How dreadfully sad that may be. I have three lovely children'


  Noras naivety and ignorance displayed towards her conversation with Mrs Linde
• '[takes a packet of macaroons from her pocket and eats one or two]'


  Noras subtle acts of defiance presented throughout the play
• 'you are going to have a big salary and earn lots of money'


  Nora's naivety and childish outlook on life
• 'a wife cannot borrow without her husbands consent'

  Mrs Linde
• ' I don't know a lot about law'

  Presentation of Nora's shielding from society
• "it was like being a man'


  Nora on her chance to take charge when Helmer was ill
• 'how painful and humiliating it would be for Torvald'


  Nora's worry on her husbands reputation
• ' a woman who has once sold herself for another persons sake, does not do it for a second time'


  Mrs Linde's troubles with being with Krogstad
• 'an atmosphere of lies infects and poisons the whole life of a home'


  Helmers view on lies
• 'everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother'


  Helmers view of deceitful mothers effects on their children
• 'we have never exchanged a word on a serious subject'


  Nora on her relationship dynamic with Helmer
• 'I have been your doll-wife'


  Nora on her relationship
• 'sacred duties to your husband and your children'


  Helmer on a woman's duties as a wife