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Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House

  • Claudia Rondón Bohórquezhas quoted7 years ago
    together would be a real wedlock. Goodbye. [She goes out through the hall.]
    Helmer [sinks down on a chair at the door and buries his face in his hands]. Nora! Nora! [Looks round, and rises.] Empty. She is gone. [A hope flashes across his mind.] The most wonderful thing of all--?
  • Xiomara Canizaleshas quoted7 years ago
    There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
  • notlateforkatehas quoted8 years ago
    But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves.
    Nora. It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
  • caitlinlairdhas quoted14 hours ago
    I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora—bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves.

    Nora. It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
  • caitlinlairdhas quoted14 hours ago
    I don't believe that any longer. I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are—or, at all events, that I must try and become one. I know quite well, Torvald, that most people would think you right, and that views of that kind are to be found in books; but I can no longer content myself with what most people say, or with what is found in books. I must think over things for myself and get to understand them.
  • caitlinlairdhas quoted14 hours ago
    Before all else, you are a wife and mother.
  • caitlinlairdhas quoted14 hours ago
    This is how you would neglect your most sacred duties.

    Nora. What do you consider my most sacred duties?

    Helmer. Do I need to tell you that? Are they not your duties to your husband and your children?

    Nora. I have other duties just as sacred.
  • caitlinlairdhas quoted14 hours ago
    I must stand quite alone, if I am to understand myself and everything about me. It is for that reason that I cannot remain with you any longer.
  • caitlinlairdhas quoted14 hours ago
    Alas, Torvald, you are not the man to educate me into being a proper wife for you.
  • caitlinlairdhas quoted14 hours ago
    I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.
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