Monologue

Nora Monologue from A Doll's House

From A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

female · anguished · 1:05 min

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Maybe. But you neither think nor talk like the man I could bind myself to. As soon as your fear was over—and it was not fear for what threatened me, but for what might happen to you—when the whole thing was past, as far as you were concerned it was exactly as if nothing at all had happened. Exactly as before, I was your little skylark, your doll, which you would in future treat with doubly gentle care, because it was so brittle and fragile. (Getting up.) Torvald—it was then it dawned upon me that for eight years I had been living here with a strange man, and had borne him three children—. Oh, I can’t bear to think of it! I could tear myself into little bits!

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Nora confronts the reality of her marriage and the facade she has maintained, realizing the depth of her disillusionment and the impact of her husband's conditional love.

20s · despair · identity · betrayal · family · freedom

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