This is a list of quotes divided into Acts and scenes of A Doll's House that I have used in my essays for OCR A Level English Literature in the Drama and Poetry Pre-1900 paper. I shared these with my friends and they found them very useful so I thought I would put them on here!
Act One
Nora and Torvald Discuss Money
● “Has my little squander bird been overspending again?” - Torvald
● “Spendthrift” “Squanderbird” “Songbird” “Squirrel” “Expensive pet”- Torvald
● “Your delicate little hands.” - Torvald
● “A home that is founded on debts and borrowing can never be a place of freedom and
beauty.” - Torvald
● “Plays with his coat buttons; not looking at him” - Nora
● “I’ll get him in the right mood.”- Nora
Mrs Linde and Nora Discuss Work and Money
● “Smiles sadly and strokes Nora’s hair. ” - Mrs Linde
● “So little of the worries and hardships of life.”- Mrs Linde
● “I had to turn my hand to anything I could find.”- Mrs Linde
● “To sit there working and earning money. It was like being a man.”- Nora
● “He’s so proud of being a man- it’d be so painful and humiliating for him to know that
he owed anything to me.” - Nora
● “Heaps and heaps of money”- Nora
● “I can’t say exactly. It’s awfully difficult to keep an exact check on these kinds of
transactions.” - Nora
Dr Rank, Mrs Linde and Nora
● “He’s crippled alright- morally twisted”- Rank
● “It’s that attitude that’s turning human society into a hospital.”- Rank about Mrs
Linde’s argument that some people should try to be saved.
● “What do I care about society?”- Nora
● “Macaroons! I thought they were forbidden here!”- Rank
Nora and the Children Playing
● “Lovely little baby dolls.”- Nora
Nora and Krogstad Discuss Her Secret
● “That I would have any influence over my husband?” - Nora
● “I must try to regain what respectability I can.” - Krogstad
● “Your husband wants to kick me off that ladder back into the dirt.”- Krogstad
, ● “It’d involve me in the most dreadful unpleasantness”- Nora
● “It is no bigger nor worse a crime than the one I once committed and thereby ruined
my whole social position.” - Krogstad
● “I didn’t care about you.” - Nora
● “The law does not concern itself with motives.” “Then the law must be very stupid.” -
Krogstad and Nora
Nora and Torvald
● “This is no place for anyone but a mother”- Torvald, when leaving Nora with the
children
● “A songbird must have a clean beak to sing with.” - Torvald
● “So little Miss Independent’s in trouble and needs a man to rescue her, does she?” -
Torvald
● “He chose to try and trick his way out of it. And that’s what has morally destroyed him.” -
Torvald
● “An atmosphere of lies contaminates and poisons every corner of the home.” - Torvald
● “Morally speaking, he is dead.”- Torvald about Krogstad
● “Wear a mask in the presence of those near and dear to him.” - Torvald about Krogstad
● “Corrupt my little children-! Poison my home! It isn’t true!” - Nora
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