A Doll’s House

Henrik Ibsen’s play of Nora Helmer, a young wife and mother in a Norwegian town, who once secretly borrowed money to save her husband’s life and now faces its exposure.

Start reading3 acts, about 27,000 words

Famous quotes

• You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

  Act III, spoken by NoraIn context

  • Love
  • Marriage

• I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.

  Act III, spoken by NoraIn context

  • Marriage
  • Women

• I must stand quite alone, if I am to understand myself and everything about me.

  Act III, spoken by NoraIn context

  • Freedom

• I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are⁠—or, at all events, that I must try and become one.

  Act III, spoken by NoraIn context

  • Freedom
  • Women

Contents

1. Act I
2. Act II
3. Act III