Character · A Doll's House · Henrik Ibsen

NORA

2 monologues indexed — plays clarity, awakening.

DramaticClarityAwakening25–3520s–30sAdvanced

Monologues

NORA

I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child. And the children, in their turn, have been my dolls.

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NORA

A Doll's House · Henrik Ibsen

It is perfectly true, Torvald. When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls. And when I came to live with you—

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What NORA wants

To be understood once, accurately, before she goes.The blackmail is over. He was cruel for four minutes and then relieved, and expected everything to go back. She has changed her dress and asked him to sit down.
To make Torvald — and herself — finally see the truth of who she has been, so she can leave without pretending.Her forgery has been exposed and forgiven; Torvald expects gratitude and a return to normal. Instead Nora sits him down to explain why she must go.

Scenes NORA appears in

Act I229 lines
Act II212 lines
Act III125 lines