This 1-2 minute dramatic monologue from Henrik Ibsen's play, The Doll's House, features Nora speaking to Torvald.
A DOLL'S HOUSE
by Henrik Ibsen
INT: THE HELMER'S HOUSE
Nora is alone with her husband, Torvald Helmer.
NORA
(To Torvald)
It is perfectly true, Torvald. When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls. And when I came to live with you…I mean that I was simply transferred from papa's hands into yours. You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you or else I pretended to, I am really not quite sure which—I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other. When I look back on it, it seems to me as if I had been living here like a poor woman-just from hand to mouth. I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald. But you would have it so. You and papa have committed a great sin against me. It is your fault that I have made nothing of my life.
