Monologue

Nora Monologue from A Doll's House

From A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

female · anguished · 57 sec

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(undisturbed). I mean that I was simply transferred from papa’s hands into yours. You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you—or else I pretended to, I am really not quite sure which—I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other. When I look back on it, it seems to me as if I had been living here like a poor woman—just from hand to mouth. I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald. But you would have it so. You and papa have committed a great sin against me. It is your fault that I have made nothing of my life.

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Nora reflects on her life and the control exerted over her by her father and husband, expressing her feelings of entrapment and loss of identity.

20s · sadness · identity · betrayal · freedom · family

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