Context for 'A Dolls House'
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- Created on: 23-02-18 11:39
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- Context for 'A Dolls House'
- Bourgeoisie Society
- Respectability/status was the most important thing to the upper classes
- Definition: the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
- Women
- Treated as trophies and pets.
- Could not make their own decisions
- Worked for men
- Patriarchal Society
- Women were subordinate to men
- Could not take out money on their own had to have husbands consent
- Would not be allowed to question their husbands actions and would have to do what they say
- Married women would not be able to work only single women who were usually divorcees
- Marxism
- Definition: the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis of communism.
- Characters hold a lack of empathy for people not like themselves
- Capitalism
- Nora being presented as quite stupid and childlike go on to show the frail, inconsistent nature of capitalism
- Henrik isben
- When he was eight years old, his father's business failed and the family retired to a country house..
- Ibsen bitterly recalled how their friends, eager to dine and drink as guests of the affluent merchant, forsook all connections with the Ibsens when they lost their financial standing
- In 1850, Ibsen's youth, Norway experienced a nationalist awakening. The new literary generation, after four hundred years of Danish rule (1397–1818), sought to revive the glories of Norwegian history and medieval literature.
- Ibsen suffered great depression during this part of his life. The varied responsibilities of his job allowed him no chance for his own creative work.
- In addition, the theater was doing so badly that his salary was severely reduced.
- When he was eight years old, his father's business failed and the family retired to a country house..
- Bourgeoisie Society
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