A Doll's House Literary Critics

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Salome - Conflict
‘At the core, she remained childlike, while he was a self-satisfied adult’
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Kibred - Conflict
‘Helmer is as much a victim of a specialist code as his wife’
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Baruch - Conflict
‘Nora is the new adventurer, a mythic hero for women to emulate, a rehabilitated Eve who has the courage to leave the garden in search of knowledge’
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Baruch - Character Flaws
'The whole world of the Helmer household is a masquerade. Nora, the little doll, grows up to be a big doll. She wears a mask of ‘feminine’ dependency, designed to please Helmer’
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Karen Armstrong - Character Flaws
women are: ‘too pure and sacred to share in the disgusting lust that afflicted men’
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R. M. Adams - Gender
'A Doll House represents a woman imbued with the idea of becoming a person, but it proposes nothing categorical about women becoming people; in fact, its real theme has nothing to do with the sexes’
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Haugen - Gender
'Ibsen's Nora is not just a woman arguing for female liberation; she is much more. She embodies the comedy as well as the tragedy of modern life'
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‘Helmer is as much a victim of a specialist code as his wife’

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Kibred - Conflict

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‘Nora is the new adventurer, a mythic hero for women to emulate, a rehabilitated Eve who has the courage to leave the garden in search of knowledge’

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Card 4

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'The whole world of the Helmer household is a masquerade. Nora, the little doll, grows up to be a big doll. She wears a mask of ‘feminine’ dependency, designed to please Helmer’

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Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

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women are: ‘too pure and sacred to share in the disgusting lust that afflicted men’

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