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terms of endearment x3 (Torvald to Nora)
"my little skylark", "my little squirrell", "Miss Sweet Tooth"
1 of 18
Torvald asks from Nora if she's been spending money
"Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?"
2 of 18
Nora is enthusiastic about Torvald's new job
"You are going to have a big salary and have lots and lots of money"
3 of 18
Nora talks about saving Torvald's life
"[The year in Italy] saved Torvald's life. But it cost a tremendous lot of money"
4 of 18
Mrs Linde about women borrowing money
"a wife cannot borrow without her husband's consent"
5 of 18
Nora being surprised that women cannot borrow money
"Is a wife not to be allowed to save her husband's life? I don't know much about law, but I am certain that there must be laws permitting such things as that"
6 of 18
Mrs Linde discusses how she went to her husband
"My mother was alive then and was bedridden and helpless, and I had to provide for my two younger brothers; so I did not think I was justified in refusing his offer"
7 of 18
Nora explains what it was like for her to work
"it was a tremendous pleasure to sit there working and earning money. It was like being a man"
8 of 18
Nora's explanation on why she does not tell Torvald
"how painful and humiliating it would be for Torvald, with his manly independence, to know that he owed me anything!"
9 of 18
Mrs Linde answers to Krogstad that she is not trying to save Nora
"Nils, a woman who has once sold herself for another's sake doesn't do it a second time"
10 of 18
Torvald shows how lies affect home
"an atmosphere of lies infects and poisons the whole life of a home"
11 of 18
Torvald explains what effect a deceitful mother has in children
"Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother"
12 of 18
Nora says to Torvald that they don't discuss serious matters
"In all these eight years...we have never exchanged a word on any serious subject"
13 of 18
Nora describes how her life has felt
"When I look back on it it seems to me as if I have been living here like a poor woman - just from hand to mouth"
14 of 18
Nora on her doll-like existence
"I have been your doll wife, just as at home I was Papa's doll child"
15 of 18
Torvald explains woman's duties
"sacred duties...to your husband and your children"
16 of 18
Nora underlines that she is human as well
"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"
17 of 18
Torvald and Nora's conversation highlighting what is expected from women
Helmer: But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves.
Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Other cards in this set

Card 2

Front

"Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?"

Back

Torvald asks from Nora if she's been spending money

Card 3

Front

"You are going to have a big salary and have lots and lots of money"

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

"[The year in Italy] saved Torvald's life. But it cost a tremendous lot of money"

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

"a wife cannot borrow without her husband's consent"

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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