A Doll's House Critical Theory

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Created on: 27-05-18 12:21

Jennie Lanouette - 'A well made Doll's House' - what does this mean?

Elements of all 3 dramas - the melodrama, the social drama and the well made play. The ending is a beginning of a new story as coincidental events occurs, eg. Krogstad and Mrs Linde arrive at the same time - some people criticise this.

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Ibsen - the father

of drama

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Lanouette - Ibsen is using Rank to show us the

kind of relationship Nora doesn't have with Torvald

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Erica Wagner - The Ibsen's had been rich: then they become not poor

but much less wealthy; and they were keen to keep up appearances

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Mary Wollstonecraft - confined them

in cages like the feathered race

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Linnea - they were expected to be passive

no matter what their true personality was

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Social Demokraten 1879 - this play touched the lives of thousands of families

oh yes there are thousands of such doll-homes; where the husband treats his wife as a child he amuses himself with

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Fædrelandet 1879 - Very often a problem finding

ending which at once satisfies himself and his audience’

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Erik Vullum- Helmer is an expression of external, vacuous authority

Nora is the opposition who breaks with this external authority’

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Joan Templeton - Ibsen's Nora is not just a woman arguing for female liberation:

she is much more. She embodies comedy as well as the tragedy of modern life.

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Lanouette - Ibsen uses Mrs Linde to represent the 'super moms' of the 1970s- what does this mean?

Allowed to have a career as long as they take on everything

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Ibsen - Physicians used Nora whose mood changes from joy to depression

in short cycles of time as an example of female hysteria

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Amalie Skram - 'Like Nora, she will let the duties that her doll-life gave to her fall dead to the ground

because the work with her own neglected self will absorb and annul everything else

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Sally Ledger- Part of Nora desires to comply

to patriarchal social arrangements

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Lanouette- At the end Nora is elevat[ed]

to a level of personhood she has not previously experienced.”

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Card 2

Front

Ibsen - the father

Back

of drama

Card 3

Front

Lanouette - Ibsen is using Rank to show us the

Back

Card 4

Front

Erica Wagner - The Ibsen's had been rich: then they become not poor

Back

Card 5

Front

Mary Wollstonecraft - confined them

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