A Doll's House - critics quotes

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1. Max Beerbohm

  • 'frivolous, deceitful or unwomanly, she qualifies neither as a heroine nor as a spokeswoman for feminism'
  • 'The new woman sprang fully armed from Ibsen's brain'
  • 'a barbaric outrage'
  • 'I would never leave [my] children'
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2. Joan Templeton

  • 'Frivolous, deceitful or unwomanly, she qualifies neither as a heroine nor as a spokeswoman for feminism'
  • 'a barbaric outrage'
  • 'an exclusively masculine society, with laws made by men and prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine viewpoint'
  • 'it starts with 'macaroon lies' which grows into 'white lies''

3. Hedwig Niemann-Raabe

  • 'I would never leave [my children]
  • 'a barbaric outrage'
  • 'There are thousands of such doll-homes'
  • 'The new woman sprang fully armed from Ibsen's brain'

4. Ibsen (ending)

  • 'There are thousands of such doll-homes'
  • 'a barbaric outrage'
  • 'I would never leave [my] children'
  • 'The new woman sprang fully armed from Ibsen's brain'

5. Hattie Morahan

  • 'There are thousands of such doll-homes'
  • 'There is something timeless about it ... The things Ibsen writes means it ceases to be about a particular milieu'
  • 'a barbaric outrage'
  • 'Nora's dramatic exit is something many parents do five days a week'

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