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A Doll's House Act 1 Quotes - Coggle Diagram
A Doll's House Act 1 Quotes
Rank
LINDE "One has to live, doctor" Response "Yes, people do seem to regard it as a necessity" 45
"However Wretched I sometimes feel, I still want to go on being tortured for as long as possible" 45
"A fellow laywer called Krogstad - you wouldn't know him. He's crippled all right; morally twisted" 45
"(To Mrs Linde) I wonder if in your part of the world you too have a species of creature that spends its time fussing around trying to smell out moral corruption" 46
Mrs Linde
"(shyly and a little hesitantly)"33
"Not even a feeling of loss or sorrow" 34
"These last 3 years have been just one endless slog for me, without a moment's rest" 37
"No, Nora. Just unspeakably empty. No one to live for any more" 38
"It's sweet of you to bother so much about me, Nora. Especially since you know so little of the worries and hardships of life...You're a child, Nora" 38
"Well, A wife can't borrow money without her husband's consent...I think it's foolish if without his knowledge you-"41
"But surely it's the sick who need care the most?" 46
"Starts, composes herself and turns away to the window" 43
Torvald
"Has my little squanderbird been overspending again" 28
"Oh, Nora, Nora, How like a woman!" 29
"I suppose I must take you as you are. It's in your blood. Yes, yes, yes, these things are hereditary, Nora...And I wouldn't wish my darling little songbird to be any different from what she is" 31
"Come Mrs Linde. This is for mothers only" 49
"Nora, Nora! And you were ready to enter into such a conspiracy? Talking to a man like that, and making him promises and then, on top of it all, to tell me an untruth" 59
"(wags his finger) My little Songbird must never do that again. A songbird must have a clean beak to sing with. Otherwise she'll start twittering out of tune. (Puts his arm round her waist) Isn't that the way we want things? Yes of couse it is." 59
"Aha! So little miss independant's in trouble and needs a man to rescue her, does she?" 60
"Just think how a man with that load on his conscience mist always be lying and cheating and dissembling- how he must wear a mask even in the presence of those who are dearest to him, even his own wife and children! Yes, the children. That's the worst danger, Nora" 61
"Because an atmosphere of lies contaminates and poisons every corner of the home. Every breath that the children draw in such a house contains the germs of evil" 61
"Nearly all young criminals are the children of mothers who are constitutional liars... It's usually the mother- though the father can have the same influence" 61
NORA
"Nora closes the door...She takes from her pocket a bag containing macaroons...She tiptoes across and listens at her husband's door" 28
"You've got a big salary now, and you're going to make lots and lots of money" 28
"Money!" 29
"You know I could never act against your wishes" 32
"Oh these last eight years have been such a happy time for me!" To Mrs Linde, 33
"No you start. I'm not going to be selfish today. I'm just going to think about you. Oh but there's one thing I must tell you" 35
"Ah, But when a wife has a little business sense, and knows how to be clever" 40
"He said I was frivolous, and that it was his duty as a husband not to pander to my moods and caprices" 41
"In case you don't know in the world of business there are things called quarterly instalments and interest, and they're a terrible problem to cope with" 42
"But it was great fun, though, sitting there working and earning money. It was almost like being a man" 42
"I've the most extraordinary longing to say: 'Bloody Hell'...(Hiding the bag of macaroons) Shh! Ssh!" 47
"Oh let me hold her for a moment Anne Marie! My Sweet little baby doll!"49
"Oh, one has a little influence, you know. Just because one's a woman it doesn't necessarly mean that...But Mr Krogstad, I have no influence" 52
"He's trying to frighten me! I'm not that stupid...But-? No, it's impossible. I did it for love, didn't I?" 58
"I'll do everything that you like, Torvald. I'll sing for you, dance for you-" 58
It's Nonsense. It must be. It's impossible. It must be impossible!... Corrupt my little children-! Poision my home!...It isn't true It couldn't be true!" 62
Krogstad
"Pure business, Mrs Helmer. Nothing more." 44
"Oh, you don't need to play the innocent with me" 52
"I imagine he has his weaknesses like other married men" 53
"I committed an indiscretion...It never came to court; but from that day, every opening was barred to me...I must try to regain what respectability I can" 53
"You say that because you don't want to help me. But I have the means to make you" 53
"Mrs Helmer, you evidently don't appreciate exactly what you have done. But I can assure you that it is no bigger nor worse a crime than the one I once committed and thereby ruined by whole social position" 57
"The Law does not concern itself with motives" 57
"Good. Do as you please. But I tell you this. If I get thrown into the gutter for a second time, I shall take you with me" 57