🔗 A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (1879) | Books & Boots
So she’s leaving. Now. Taking only her own possessions. ‘I don’t want anything of yours, either now or later.’ This is all incredibly sudden and brutally final. In a set piece passage Torvald accuses her of forgetting her ‘most sacred duty, to her husband and children’. And Nora, in a rebuttal which has had feminists leaping to their feet and cheering for nearly a century and a half, replies:
‘I have another duty equally sacred … My duty to myself!‘ (p.82)
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