Drama
- Created by: Jess0699
- Created on: 06-04-16 10:07
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- Themes
- The role of women
- married women didn't have right to property & money inherited from their family
- married men & women treated as one person
- Difficult for women to obtain a divorce - lose custody of their children
- Women in play forced - sacrifice themselves for husbands
- Play concerned damage society - for refusing - equality
- Mrs Linde abandons Krogstad - marry richer man
- The nanny - abandon children to support herself
- Nora trapped in her role as wife and mother
- vulnerable character - illegal to for women to loan out without husband's permission
- Leaves her children - thinks she's corrupting them - better cared for by nanny
- Nora - abandonment of role - wife & mother - slamming door - move forward as individual object subject - not an object
- Nora opening door - symbolise opening the way for change - thus breaking the cycle - feminism
- Illusion/Reality
- Beginning - very little first seems
- Nora - silly & selfish woman
- We learn - Nora has made great sacrifice for husband - pay back loan
- Torvald - generous & loving husband
- Weak, vain & shallow - primarily concerned with public opinion & reputation
- Nora - silly & selfish woman
- Helmers - loving marriage.
- Their matrimony based on lies & unequal relationship
- Marriage based on illusion
- Nora breaks that facade - moving forward as individual
- Krogstad - bitter
- Shows true colours - reuniting with Mrs Linde - merciful
- Mrs Linde - self-sufficient
- She feels worthless & no one to look after
- Dr Rank - act as friend to Helmer's
- True motives - loves Nora
- Beginning - very little first seems
- Deception
- Gap between 'Illusion and reality' - characters caught up in forms of deception
- Achieve acceptance from others or their society
- Nora lies to Torvald - small matters - eating macaroons - truth about the loan
- Torvald deceives Nora - wouldn't let any burden fall on her
- Pushes her to leave him - more concerned how society views him than protecting his wife
- Dr Rank lies to Torvald - about health & reason for visiting the house
- central to theme - money & letters
- K. letter to communicate with Helmer
- First. reveal Nora's crime. Second - retract his blackmail threat
- Second letter - releases N from blackmail - keep up facade
- T. keep pervious denial of reality - N refuses - letter done than reveal the truth - realised she can't be in a happy marriage
- Second letter - releases N from blackmail - keep up facade
- Nora tries to stop T. reading letter - her denial of the true nature of marriage
- First. reveal Nora's crime. Second - retract his blackmail threat
- K. letter to communicate with Helmer
- Gap between 'Illusion and reality' - characters caught up in forms of deception
- The role of women
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