From The Antique Analysis
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- Created on: 27-01-20 14:20
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- From The Antique
- ADH
- 'It's a weary life....doubly blank in a woman's lot'
- Could be from Nora's perspective
- 'Or, better than any being, were not'
- Wishing you didn't exist - similar to Nora's consideration of suicide
- 'Blossoms blooom as in days of old, cherries ripen and wild bees hum'
- Nora regains a perfect life when she leaves her family
- 'Still the world would wag on the same'
- The Helmer family must continue like normal without Nora
- 'Would wake and weary and fall asleep'
- What Nora did before she realized she wasn't herself with Torvald
- 'It's a weary life....doubly blank in a woman's lot'
- Woman's place in society
- 'Still the world would wag on the same'
- If the narrator (a woman) died no one would care/notice. There is always another woman to take the spot of the last.
- 'Not so much as a grain of dust'
- Better to not exist at all rather
- 'Still the world would wag on the same'
- Significance of the title
- 'Antique' - relic without purpose
- When women are young they have a purpose as mothers, in childbirth, taking care of the home
- But once they are old they are useless and have no purpose or use
- When women are young they have a purpose as mothers, in childbirth, taking care of the home
- 'Antique' has connotations of something old but valuable and precious
- Showing how even aged women are still valuable as humans, even if society says they aren't
- 'Antique' - relic without purpose
- AO5
- “I am not even very sure what Women’s Rights really are” - Ibsen
- in a speech for the Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights in Christiana
- Hullah - “Rossetti’s poems encourage women to claim independence and agency”
- “the faults of women are visited as sins, the sins of men are not even visited as faults”
- “I am not even very sure what Women’s Rights really are” - Ibsen
- AO3
- Place of women in society
- Place of women below men
- Women belong to their father's and then their husbands
- Without a controlling man in their lives women have no purpose
- Women as caregivers - to men and children
- ADH
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