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- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 11 characters, 7 places, 13 objects and 4 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 25 passages of A Doll's House sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as Henrik Ibsen wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on Henrik Ibsen instead.
A Doll's House feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of A Doll's House
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- Nora's secret - she forged her father's name to save Torvald's life
- Torvald fires Krogstad anyway - the letter lands in the locked box
- Torvald reads the letter - and his response is not the wonderful thing
- Nora leaves - the door closes on the doll's house
The author's pen in A Doll's House
The passages themselves, Henrik Ibsen's own words, as Literah maps it.
- My Little Spendthriftch. 1
- No Debt No Borrowingch. 1
- No One To Live Forch. 1
- Saving Her Husband’s Lifech. 1
- The Discrepancy in the Bondch. 1
- A Deceitful Motherch. 1
- Mother Will Dance Tooch. 1
- Earning Money in Secretch. 1
- Krogstad's Other Reasonch. 1
- Authority to Make Changesch. 1
- Would They Forget Their Motherch. 2
- Rank’s Black Crossch. 2
- Nora Dances Wildlych. 2
- The Letter In the Boxch. 2
- Rank's Confession Spoiledch. 2
- Nora Takes It Allch. 2
- Mrs Linde Refuses Recallch. 3
- Now I Am Beginning to Understandch. 3
- Helmer Saved Firstch. 3
- The First Serious Conversationch. 3
The characters of A Doll's House
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Nora Helmermajor
- Torvald Helmermajor
- Mrs Lindemajor
- Nils Krogstadmajor
- Doctor Rankmajor
- Annesupporting
- Ivar, Bob, and Emmysupporting
- Helenminor
- Porterminor
- Nora’s fathermentioned
- Krogstad’s childrenmentioned
The locations in A Doll's House
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Helmer sitting roomroom
- The hall and letter-boxhall
- Torvald’s studystudy
- The Christmas tree cornerinterior display space
- Upstairs fancy-dress ball / Stenborgs’ apartmentapartment
- The bankinstitution
- Italy and Capriremembered place
The core concepts in A Doll's House
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Love as possession, not recognition
- Domestic beauty without truth becomes a trap
- Women’s moral action is constrained by male law and money
- Reputation defeats moral courage until it is exposed
- Performance protects the self until it nearly destroys it
- Truth, not rescue, makes adult partnership possible
- Guilt is treated as something inherited, breathed, and passed on
- Doors, letters, and keys decide who controls truth
The objects of note in A Doll's House
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- Macaroons
- Christmas parcels
- Christmas tree
- Torvald’s money
- Loan bond / forged signature
- Krogstad’s first letter
- Krogstad’s second letter
- Letter-box
- Letter-box key
- Tarantella dress
- Doctor Rank’s black-cross cards
- Rings
- House keys
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