A dolls house script act 2. A Doll's House Full Text 2022-12-25
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A Doll's House Full Text and Analysis
Nora begins to play the opening bars of the tarantella on the piano. Linde in a horse voice and shows her the letter in the letterbox, saying that it is from Krogstad. Mrs Linde But tell me this--is he perfectly sincere? Much like Nora, he resorted to illegal and underhanded dealings because society prohibited him from finding respectable work. Maid Yes, but it was no good. I did, too--but I hadn't the courage. How are the children? I suppose there is nothing—she is not expecting anything? Yes, Torvald, I beg you so earnestly-- Helmer Have you really the courage to open up that question again? Kristine reenters the room after having worked on Nora's costume. We are not coming in; you have locked the door.
Nora disguises her desperation that Torvald not open the letterbox, as well as her generally unhinged disposition, underneath a façade of stress about her impending performance of the tarantella. Nora: Yes, it's too late. And be sure you remember that it is your husband himself who has forced me into such ways as this again. The whole thing is only the wildest fancy! No, no, no, it can't happen—it shan't happen! RANK: I was determined you should know it before I went away, and there will never be a better opportunity than this. What prediction does this excerpt best support? Nora And if my little ones had no other mother, I am sure you would-- What nonsense I am talking! NORA: How should I know—? Each of the other characters—Nora, Mrs. She then further contradicts herself by saying that she never needed help in the first place.
HELMER: Was that the dressmaker? The child shall have her way. Her comments about singing and dancing and doing tricks add to the idea of performing her role as a wife, and the reference to the elfin child shows she is willing to adopt the role of a child. Now I am turned out, and I am not going to be satisfied with merely being taken into favour again. LINDE: A wonderful thing? Speak low--my husband is at home. NORA: How did you know I had thought of that? I have been thinking about you all day long.
I shall go into the inner office and shut the door, and I shall hear nothing; you can make as much noise as you please. But I don't understand all this. Linde: Believe me, Nora, that's the best thing for both of you. And oysters too, I suppose? Krogstad If you had it in your mind to run away from your home-- Nora I had. His father was a horrible man who committed all sorts of excesses; and that is why his son was sickly from childhood, do you understand? Krogstad I fought as hard as I could on your side, but it was no good. NORA: Because it is such a narrow-minded way of looking at things. Linde tells her yes, and Nora cries out that then one can tear it up into a thousand pieces and burn it.
But I am not going to disturb you; you will want to be trying on your dress, I expect. Oh, dear, nice Doctor Rank, I never meant that at all. Nora I should like to tear it into a hundred thousand pieces. There is no one else out there, is there? KROGSTAD: Besides, it would have been a great piece of folly. Krogstad I shall only preserve it--keep it in my possession. This evening I will be wholly and absolutely at your service, you helpless little mortal.
A Doll's House Part 2: Suspense and Irony Flashcards
Nora laments that now Torvald will know everything, and Mrs. But I certainly didn't expect it to happen so soon. Let me tell you this--you ought to make an end of it with Doctor Rank. But I am quite sure that if I told Doctor Rank— MRS. Nora, despite having claimed that men cope better with matters of business than women, still feels that she needs to hide the issue of the debt from Torvald, in what is almost a protective gesture.
Out of my thoughts, out of my thoughts! Although I am quite sure that if I had asked him-- Mrs Linde But of course you won't. People don't do such things, Mrs Helmer. You will catch cold, ma'am, and make yourself ill. I want to get to the top. NORA, at the piano, plays the first bars of the Tarantella.
Nora I suppose you are going to work. Bless my soul, how unreasonable you are! That is how it shall be. Nora: Or if anything else should happen to me—anything, for instance, that might prevent my being here— Mrs. She wrote to me when she was confirmed, and when she was married. Mrs Linde I heard you were up asking for me. RANK: Especially that they should revenge themselves on the unlucky bones of those who have not had the satisfaction of enjoying them.
It really is so--of course it is! What dramatic irony occurs in this passage? Helmer: Come, come, don't be so wild and nervous. Nora: I only want to say this to you, Christine—you must be my witness. I am not out of my mind at all; I am in my right senses now, and I tell you no one else has known anything about it; I, and I alone, did the whole thing. Torvald tells her to slow down and be less wild, but Nora laughs and says this is how it must be. Helmer Naturally you are thinking of your father. As soon as I am quite certain that the worst has come, I shall send you my card with a black cross on it, and then you will know that the loathsome end has begun.
