A Doll's House Critics

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Garland
Nora and Torvald's relationship is an unresolved battle for power
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Milett
Nora confronted every convention and masculine prejudice
2 of 24
Demokraten
it was her inescapable duty to leave
3 of 24
Koht
the play exploded like a bomb on contemporary life
4 of 24
Telegraph
rotten morality
5 of 24
Ledge
the play shows a critical scrutiny of the lives and values of the bourgeois class
6 of 24
Joyce
Ibsen offers us a theatre of monstrous epiphany
7 of 24
Archer
critics are no less flabbergasted when than Torvald when the doll takes off her masquerade dress
8 of 24
Baruch
Nora is a rehabilitated eve who has courage to leave the garden in search for knowledge
9 of 24
Johnston
Nora is a sexual creature who radiates and uses her sexual power
10 of 24
Finney
in closing the door on her husband and children Nora opened the way to the turn of the century movement
11 of 24
Lee
Nora realises she has always been controlled by other peoples desires and not her own
12 of 24
Milett
victorian conventions caged Nora within a Childs toy structure
13 of 24
Westgate
shook the foundations of fin de siecle domesticity
14 of 24
Ibsen
women retire and die once they complete their duty propagating the human race
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Ibsen
new nobility of mind and will
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Yuhua
masculine power lost as a result of female ideological awakening
17 of 24
Wollstonecraft
pleasing man at the expense of every solid virtue
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Ibsen
im not sure what women rights even are
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Collett
half teasing demon half saint
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Patmore
to please man is woman's pleasure
21 of 24
Templeton
every woman's struggle with every man
22 of 24
Woolf
killing the angel in the house
23 of 24
Bradbrook
Nora's marriage was 8 years prostitution
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Nora confronted every convention and masculine prejudice

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Milett

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it was her inescapable duty to leave

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Card 4

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the play exploded like a bomb on contemporary life

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Card 5

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rotten morality

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