Torvald, you are not the man to educate me into being a proper wife for you.
And you can say that!
And I—how am I fitted to bring up the children?... Didn't you say so yourself a little while ago—that you dare not trust me to bring them up?
In a moment of anger! Why do you pay any heed to that?
Nora!
Indeed, you were perfectly right. I am not fit for the task. There is another task I must undertake first. I must try and educate myself—you are not the man to help me in that. I must do that for myself. And that is why I am going to leave you now.
What do you say?
NORA!NORA!
I must stand quite alone, if I am to understand myself and everything about me. It is for that reason that I cannot remain with you any longer.
I am going away from here now, at once. I am sure Christine will take me in for the night—
You are out of your mind! I won't allow it! I forbid you! …Before all else, you are a wife and a mother.
: I don't believe that any longer. 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. I know quite well, Torvald, that most people would think you right, and that views of that kind are to be found in books;
but, I can no longer content myself with what most people say, or with what is found in books. i must think over things for myself and get to understand them