A Doll's House

A wife realizes her marriage has been a performance, and walks out the door that changed modern theatre.

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▸Act IChristmas Eve. Nora's secret debt walks back into the house as Krogstad.▸Act IIChristmas Day. The tarantella, and the letter waiting in the box.▸Act IIIThe letter is read. Nora tells Torvald what their marriage has been, and leaves.

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NORA

A Doll's House · Henrik Ibsen

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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Writer	Henrik Ibsen
Written	1879
Pages	90
Reading time	~2 hrs
Monologues	2 indexed
Themes	marriage, identity, freedom, money
Principals	Nora, Torvald Helmer, Dr. Rank, Mrs. Linde, Krogstad

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