A Doll's House context
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- A Doll's House context - 1879
- Theatre
- Melodrama dominated
- An over-exaggerated play with stock characters
- Still often radical and political
- Usually finish with cleared stages and resolutions
- Nora acts as a melodramatic heroine - putting love before legality
- Acting was highly gestural
- Melodrama dominated
- An over-exaggerated play with stock characters
- Still often radical and political
- Usually finish with cleared stages and resolutions
- Nora acts as a melodramatic heroine - putting love before legality
- Melodrama dominated
- Often had large audiences of about 3000
- Well-made play
- Minimal emphasis on characterisation
- Features a compelling narrative and a standardised structure
- Intense action - the character should go through numerous ups and downs, and the audience should see the character at their highest and lowest
- Matinees
- Afternoon performances frequented more commonly by women
- Melodrama dominated
- Women
- New Woman
- Coined after the release of A Doll's House - but still relevant
- Typically middle class, intellectual, rebellious, political and independent
- Highly criticised as abnormal and unhealthy
- Victorian society was becoming more aware of sexual double standards
- Considered inferior to men
- Suffrage movement
- New Woman
- Literature
- Naturalism
- Detached, objective perspective
- 1865 - 1914
- Observes how environmental, social and hereditary factors impact human nature
- Determinist
- Often take a pessimistic tone
- Linked to the creation of sociology
- Psychological realism
- Popular in Russia
- Emphasises interior characterisation and motivations
- Explores the spiritual, emotional and mental lives of the characters
- Modernism
- Breaks classical forms and conventions
- Employs detailed characters and plot twists
- Ibsen used colloquial Norwegian language
- Naturalism
- Class
- Bourgeois respectability
- Requires women to perform a specific duty within marriage
- Financial success without debt
- Secure patriarchal marriage
- Good moral judgement
- Bourgeois respectability
- Marriage
- The Napoleonic Code
- 1804
- Gave men more power in their marriage, deprived women and illegitimate children of rights
- Stated that it provided equality
- Prevented women from engaging in any financial transaction
- Women
- New Woman
- Coined after the release of A Doll's House - but still relevant
- Typically middle class, intellectual, rebellious, political and independent
- Highly criticised as abnormal and unhealthy
- Victorian society was becoming more aware of sexual double standards
- Considered inferior to men
- Suffrage movement
- New Woman
- Women
- Used by many governments in Europe
- The Napoleonic Code
- Industrialisation
- Rise of industry created a new middle class
- More socially mobile
- New middle class were often concerned with the fragility of their prosperity
- Exhibited by Torvald's anxieties
- More career opportunities for women
- The Great Boom 1843-1875
- Mechanised industry introduced in the 1840s
- Stagnation 1875-1914
- Very high levels of emigration out of the country
- Rise of industry created a new middle class
- Core Norwegian history
- Constitution written up in 1814
- Monarchy retained but powers were restricted
- Separation of powers inspired by USA
- Church under control of the elected body
- Ensures democracy
- King must profess evangelical-lutheran religion
- Constitution written up in 1814
- Science
- Darwinism
- Evolution and natural selection
- (Linked to Nora's evolution)
- Evolution and natural selection
- Darwinism
- Community
- Assosiationsaanden
- "The eagerness to form associations"
- Groups created for people of certain interests
- Political organisations
- Thrane movement
- Utopian socialist
- Sought to better the conditions of urban and rural labourers
- Thrane movement
- Organisations based on profession
- Economic organisations
- Cultural and educational organisations
- Missionary associations
- Philanthropic associations
- Social associations
- Political organisations
- 1850 - 10 national associations 1900 - 154 national assocations
- Sought to further interests of specific groups, contribute to society, and bring people together
- Led by both state officials, and middle class and farmers
- Assosiationsaanden
- Ibsen
- Family was originally wealthy until his father's business collapsed
- Fathered a child out of wedlock. He gave finances to them, but did not visit
- Father turned to alcoholism
- Philosophy
- Comte
- Positivism
- Natural over supernatural
- The use of scientific methods to uncover the laws by which both physical and human events occur
- Sociology
- Positivism
- Marx
- Alienation
- The estrangement of people from aspects of their human nature
- Alienation
- Comte
- Madness
- Linked to women, even though initially there were more men in mental asylums
- Because of the lack of evidence needed, asylums became full of women instead of men
- Evidence could be: not bending to a husband's will, and not conforming to standards of modesty or behaviour
- Because of the lack of evidence needed, asylums became full of women instead of men
- Women were often sent to private asylums on basically non-existent evidence
- Evidence could be: not bending to a husband's will, and not conforming to standards of modesty or behaviour
- Hysteria was referred to as a "daughter's disease"
- Irrational behaviour and attention-seeking displays
- Linked to women, even though initially there were more men in mental asylums
- Masculinity
- Masculine Christianity
- Theatre
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