Read the excerpt from act 3 of A Doll’s House.Nora: Alas, Torvald, you are not the man to educate me into being a proper wife for you.Helmer: And you can say that!Nora: And I—how am I fitted to bring up the children?Helmer: Nora!Nora: Didn't you say so yourself a little while ago—that you dare not trust me to bring them up?Helmer: In a moment of anger! Why do you pay any heed to that?Nora: Indeed, you were perfectly right. I am not fit for the task. There is another task I must undertake first.
Which views from the late 1800s does this passage best support? Select two options.
Read the excerpt from act 3 of \A Doll’s House.Helmer: Listen to her, Mrs. Linde! She had danced her Tarantella, and it had been a tremendous success, as it deserved—although possibly the performance was a trifle too realistic—a little more so, I mean, than was strictly compatible with the limitations of art. But never mind about that! The chief thing is, she had made a success—she had made a tremendous success. Do you think I was going to let her remain there after that, and spoil the effect? No, indeed! I took my charming little Capri maiden—my capricious little Capri maiden, I should say—on my arm; took one quick turn round the room; a curtsey on either side, and, as they say in novels, the beautiful apparition disappeared. An exit ought always to be effective, Mrs. Linde; but that is what I cannot make Nora understand. Pooh! this room is hot. [Throws his domino on a chair, and opens the door of his room.] Hullo! it's all dark in here. Oh, of course—excuse me—.
Read the excerpt from act 3 of A Doll’s House.Helmer [walking up and down]: He had so grown into our lives. I can't think of him as having gone out of them. He, with his sufferings and his loneliness, was like a cloudy background to our sunlit happiness. Well, perhaps it is best so. For him, anyway. [Standing still.] And perhaps for us too, Nora. We two are thrown quite upon each other now. [Puts his arms round her.] My darling wife, I don't feel as if I could hold you tight enough. Do you know, Nora, I have often wished that you might be threatened by some great danger, so that I might risk my life's blood, and everything, for your sake.
Read the excerpt from act 3 of A Doll’s House.Krogstad: I will ask for my letter back.Mrs. Linde: No, no.Krogstad: Yes, of course I will. I will wait here until Helmer comes; I will tell him he must give me my letter back--that it only concerns my dismissal--that he is not to read it--Mrs. Linde: No, Nils, you must not recall your letter.Krogstad: But, tell me, wasn't it for that very purpose that you asked me to meet you here?Mrs. Linde: In my first moment of fright, it was. But twenty-four hours have elapsed since then, and in that time I have witnessed incredible things in this house. Helmer must know all about it. This unhappy secret must be disclosed; they must have a complete understanding between them, which is impossible with all this concealment and falsehood going on.Krogstad: Very well, if you will take the responsibility.
What is a universal theme?
Read the excerpt from act 3 of A Doll’s House.Helmer [reeling]: True? Is this true, that I read here? Horrible! No, no—it is impossible that it can be true.Nora: It is true. I have loved you above everything else in the world.Helmer: Oh, don't let us have any silly excuses.Nora [taking a step towards him]: Torvald—!Helmer: Miserable creature—what have you done?Nora: Let me go. You shall not suffer for my sake. You shall not take it upon yourself.Helmer: No tragic airs, please. [Locks the hall do
Read the excerpt from act 3 of A Doll’s House.Krogstad: If it were as you say, why did you write to me as you did at the time?Mrs. Linde: I could do nothing else. As I had to break with you, it was my duty also to put an end to all that you felt for me.Krogstad [wringing his hands]. So that was it. And all this—only for the sake of money!Mrs. Linde: You must not forget that I had a helpless mother and two little brothers. We couldn't wait for you, Nils; your prospects seemed hopeless then.
Which themes are best demonstrated by the evidence in this passage? Select two options.
Read the excerpt from act 3 of A Doll’s House.Nora: Alas, Torvald, you are not the man to educate me into being a proper wife for you.Helmer: And you can say that!Nora: And I—how am I fitted to bring up the children?Helmer: Nora!Nora: Didn't you say so yourself a little while ago—that you dare not trust me to bring them up?Helmer: In a moment of anger! Why do you pay any heed to that?Nora: Indeed, you were perfectly right. I am not fit for the task. There is another task I must undertake first.
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