Read the excerpt from act 3 of A Doll's House. Helmer: How unreasonable and how ungrateful you are, Nora! Have you not been happy here? Nora: No, I have never been happy. I thought I was, but it has never really been so. Helmer: Not-not happy! Nora: No, only merry. And you have always been so kind to me. But our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls. I thought it great fun when you played with me, just as they thought it great fun when I played with them. That is what our marriage has been, Torvald. What prediction does the text best support? Helmer is going to change how he treats Nora. Helmer is going to leave Nora and the children. Nora is going to leave Helmer and the children. Nora is going to tell Helmer to treat her better.

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Giana Frederick

16 July, 10:29

Read the excerpt from act 3 of A Doll's House. Helmer: How unreasonable and how ungrateful you are, Nora! Have you not been happy here? Nora: No, I have never been happy. I thought I was, but it has never really been so. Helmer: Not-not happy! Nora: No, only merry. And you have always been so kind to me. But our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls. I thought it great fun when you played with me, just as they thought it great fun when I played with them. That is what our marriage has been, Torvald. What prediction does the text best support? Helmer is going to change how he treats Nora. Helmer is going to leave Nora and the children. Nora is going to leave Helmer and the children. Nora is going to tell Helmer to treat her better.

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Phoenix · Answer 1

It seems the best answer is that Nora is going to leave Helmer and the children, because she expresses that she has never been happy whilst she has been with them.

Abril Stokes · Answer 2

In this excerpt from Act 3, of "A Doll's House", the prediction that the text best supports is Nora is going to leave Helmer and the children. After Torvald has threatened Nora that she is not going to be allowed to raise their children they argue about their married life. Nora states that she has never been happy and that she has been treated like a doll, admired and played with. We may predict that Nora needs to be herself, she needs to find herself before anything else.