Act 3, 'Sit down, Torvald'
We have been married now eight years. Does it not occur to you that this is the first time we two, you and I, husband and wife, have had a serious conversation?Read in Books4Free →
Nora's Awakening and Final Confrontation
From A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
In the climactic Act 3 dialogue, Nora sits Torvald down for the first serious conversation of their marriage, declaring she has been treated as a doll and must leave to discover herself.
Act 3, the doll's house revelation
'I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child' — the title metaphor made explicit.
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'I have other duties just as sacred... Duties to myself.' Nora rejects the conventional hierarchy of wifely and motherly duties.
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Nora insists on independent moral reasoning, rejecting Torvald's religious and social authority.
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