Rossetti Ibsen quotes

doubly blank in a womans lot- From the antique 

unspeakably empty- ( mrs linde)

 septerate spheres 

marriage

womans suffrage

the door was shut- SHUT OUT

;slams the door' - stage direction at end of a dolls house when she leaves 

both shut out for good 

highgate

religious crisis 56

garden of eden

close the pistol to her brow/ god forgive the this! ( ITRT)

I hadnt the courage ( krogstad

suicide viewed as the ultimate sin and turning on god as only he has the power to decide when soeones lives and dies

a veil a cloak and other wraps ( Winter my secret) 

but nora nora isnt as crazy as you all think ( Nora) 

clothes and following social conventions can conceal the truth of a woman and her feelings provide and front of perfect life to world around as society doesnt allow woman to realise themselves fully 

Let us strike hands as hearty friends/ no more no less 

it was like being a man - Nora

no right to reject me- krogstad 

i had to break with you it was my duty- linde 

formal, equality 

against victoria propriety woman were expected to accept men not deny them.

role reversal.

that day we waded ankle-deep/ for lillies in the beck

you dont understand the conditions of the world in which you live - Helmer

lillies symbolic of purity and virginity and loss

social aims and class 

niavity 

For he is my lord for better and worse. and him i love maude clare. 

we will share it nora as man and wife should

Marriage , true love not a factor

victorian woman will work hard for ideal life even if not intially with love

greater than moses / and smite a rock 

a wonderful thing is going to happen! - Nora 

idea of miracles 

exodus story of moses- who his a stone with his staff to create water yet the speaker is greater than moses who was actually punished for this act. she will erupt with emotion if he strikes her. 

skeptism of miracles and religion typical of preraphelite. 

but shall not question much- twice

it is a thing hundreds of thousands of woman have done. nora 

his links to the last two lines of the first stanza, where the narrator submits to the man she has feelings for. Here she is submitting to God. Here we see parallels between romantic love and religious devotion, that both involve obedience – at least, for a woman.

curiousity 

ibsen a humanist

come buy come buy 

dying of curiousity Nora 

no grass will grow

almost all those who are corrupt from an early age have had a decietful mother - Helmer

infertility-disease contagious morally

her hair turned thin and grey (GM)

ugly, hairless unrecognisable- Krogstad 

briskly deflating Nora’s image of heroic suicide

loss of her innocence and beauty in death as it is a sin 

cheek to cheek and breast to breast

no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves - helmer

 but feared to pay to dear 

a woman who has sold herself once for anothers sake doesnt do it a second time. marrige for finaicial not love 

society 

sisterhood

like a lily in a flood

eat me drink me love me- dance more and more widly hair falls over her shoulders.