Monologue

Nora Monologue from A Doll's House

From A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

female · anguished · 1:25 min

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But it was absolutely necessary that he should not know! My goodness, can’t you understand that? It was necessary he should have no idea what a dangerous condition he was in. It was to me that the doctors came and said that his life was in danger, and that the only thing to save him was to live in the south. Do you suppose I didn’t try, first of all, to get what I wanted as if it were for myself? I told him how much I should love to travel abroad like other young wives; I tried tears and entreaties with him; I told him that he ought to remember the condition I was in, and that he ought to be kind and indulgent to me; I even hinted that he might raise a loan. That nearly made him angry, Christine. He said I was thoughtless, and that it was his duty as my husband not to indulge me in my whims and caprices—as I believe he called them.

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Nora expresses her desperation and the lengths she went to in order to save her husband's life, revealing her internal conflict and the sacrifices she made in secrecy.

20s · despair · deception · sacrifice · identity · power

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