A Doll's House (OCR A Level English Literature): Flashcards
Exam code: H472
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Fill in the gap: "Your ＿＿＿＿＿ would run about and do all her tricks"
Nora Helmer, Act 1
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Fill in the gap: "Your ＿＿＿＿＿ would run about and do all her tricks"
Nora Helmer, Act 1
Answer: "Your squirrel would run about and do all her tricks"
Fill in the gap: "Now I've been chucked back into the ＿＿＿＿＿"
Krogstad, Act 1
Answer: "Now I've been chucked back into the mud"
Fill in the gap: "It was almost like being a ＿＿＿＿＿"
Nora Helmer, Act 1
Answer: "It was almost like being a man"
Fill in the gap: "Leave your home, your husband and your ＿＿＿＿＿!"
Torvald Helmer, Act 3
Answer: "Leave your home, your husband and your children!"
Key quote: "I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's doll-child"
Nora Helmer, Act 3
Analysis
Nora realises she has moved from one role to another without ever being herself. Naming both homes in one line shows that her whole identity was arranged by men.
Key quote: "But no man can be expected to sacrifice his honour, even for the person he loves"
Nora Helmer, Act 3
Analysis
Nora repeats Torvald's own rule back to him as she leaves. Quoting it exposes the double standard in what men and women are expected to give up for love.
Key quote: "I would not be a true man if your feminine helplessness did not make you doubly attractive in my eyes"
Torvald Helmer, Act 2
Analysis
Torvald admits that he desires Nora because she seems helpless. His idea of being a "true man" depends on her weakness, which shows how gender roles hold the marriage together.
Key quote: "It is no use lying to one's self. I am the most wretched of all my patients"
Dr Rank, Act 2
Analysis
Rank refuses the pretence that the rest of the household lives by. His plain honesty about dying sets him apart from the Helmers.
Key quote: "I repeat, all your father's recklessness and instability he has handed on to you! No religion, no morals, no sense of duty!"
Torvald Helmer, Act 3
Analysis
Torvald treats Nora's character as an inheritance rather than something she chose. Listing everything she supposedly lacks lets him claim authority over who she is.
Key quote: "One has no one to work for; and yet one has to be continually sponging for jobs"
Kristine Linde, Act 1
Analysis
Kristine finds that working with nobody to work for feels empty. Her experience complicates the idea that independence by itself brings freedom.
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