Guilt and shame
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- Created on: 27-05-14 16:34
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- Guilt and Shame
- Set
- Nora is trapped by guilt
- "shuts the door...and Helmer's study" - caught between T and a guilt free life "hide" - N lies to T and her guilt makes her collude in T's treatment of her "us sky larks" reflection of T's language.
- Appears open but really the family are trapped by guilt
- "secluded atmosphere" - secrecy. Joe refuses guilt "I ignore what I gotta ignore" so Kate takes it on "If only i could" personal pronoun. "Be smart" - aware of the effects of Joe's guilt
- Nora is trapped by guilt
- Guilt from other relationships
- Guilt from N and T almost ruins N's relationship with Dr Rank.
- "show me the extent of your friendship" - how far she's willing to go to rid marriage of guilt but morals prevent this "rises" = metaphoric rise in principles and cataphoric reference to act 3 where she rises above guilt again.
- Joe's and Kate's guilt affects Chris - the guilt over Larry's death constricts him.
- "good son...good sucker" syntactical parallelism - Chris made to feel guilty for surviving so tries to please. "sawing off broken tree" symbolically putting Larry's memory to rest to rid family guilt. "
- "stump standing alone" cataphoric reference to "Live" freeing him from all guilt. Chris and n = hope for new generation to move beyond guilt of ancestors
- Guilt from N and T almost ruins N's relationship with Dr Rank.
- Lack of guilt and society
- T has no real guilt is preoccupied by society role and Anne Marie guilt from society made her give up daughter
- "No debts, never borrow" "a wife can't borrow" early reference to borrowed money and women's role pressures N.
- "Poor girl" Anne Marie had to give up daughter but met "poor little Nora" rep of "poor" both lives revolve around guilt from society affecting choices because they're women.
- Society makes Chris feel guilty. Joe thinks he is free from guilt
- "bus accident" - he can't forgive wrong doing in terms of war including Joe so feels like he needs to reprimand him but feels guilty because he's his "father"
- "He never flew a P-40" because he didn't directly kill Larry he isn't guilty. "They were all my sons" but he is
- T has no real guilt is preoccupied by society role and Anne Marie guilt from society made her give up daughter
- Last paragraph
- Alternative ending
- "sin against myself" - guilt for betraying Nora's integrity - accuses society guilty of accepting unrealistic ideals
- American dream
- "you don't love a man here, you eat him" - guilt because so obsessed with AD even above morals.
- Alternative ending
- Set
- Nora is trapped by guilt
- "shuts the door...and Helmer's study" - caught between T and a guilt free life "hide" - N lies to T and her guilt makes her collude in T's treatment of her "us sky larks" reflection of T's language.
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