A Doll's House AO5
- Created by: Becca Newman
- Created on: 19-02-20 12:58
View mindmap
- 'A Doll's House' AO5
- As Byatt
- the play is about a 'searching exploration of the female'
- Nora ‘displays a silliness and insensitivity that are also part of her downfall’
- ‘Nora is not a very sympathetic woman’
- during the tarantella, Nora ‘is seen as a sexual object by Rank and Helmer, the two men watching’
- Helmer is ‘a man trapped in a doll’s house’
- Halvdan Koht (an early biographer of Ibsen)
- the play 'pronounced a death sentence on accepted social ethics'
- the play 'exploded like a bomb into contemporary life'
- “it attacked reigning social conventions”
- Ibsen
- 'I am not even very sure what Women’s Rights really are' - in a speech for the Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights
- ‘prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint’ - about the world
- ‘A mother in modern society…..retires and dies once she has done her duty by propagating the race’
- Nick and Non Worrall
- 'Torvald’s subservience to petty social values were more important to him than his feelings for his wife'
- Robert Dean
- “Christine represents independent woman’s voluntary return to a patriarchal institute”
- Samuel Rufus
- Helmer's 'love is only a form of possessing her and exploiting her completely”
- Erik Vullum
- 'Torvald slowly sacrifices her on the altar of his egotism'
- Andrew Dixon
- 'a play that depicts a woman coming to terms with the restrictions of her life and taking control of her destiny'
- Ibsen's plays are 'fierce assaults on conventions we still hold dear'
- Suffragette Gina Krog
- She called the play a 'miracle'
- 2003 'A Doll's House'
- Nora left by pulling a gun ather than slamming the door
- M W Brun 1879
- 'Any real wife in Nora's situation would throw herself into her husband's arms'
- Genre Theory
- ADH is a problem play
- Individual freedom and choices (not feminist)
- Denise Colay
- 'Rank's illness is a product of his morally corrupt father'
- Nessar Uddin
- 'Nora is Ibsen's mouthpiece of women emancipation, demonstrating an individual's liberation from the shackles of society'
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- 'in societies women were deemed childlike'
- As Byatt
Comments
No comments have yet been made