A Doll's House Flashcards
What are the key themes in ‘A Doll’s House’?
- power and control
- subjugation of women
- patriarchal society - limits for women
- humanism - class system
- inheritance
What are the contextual issues within ‘A Doll’s House’?
- proto-feminist ideas
- hereditary diseases
- patriarchy - control of women’s finances and bodies as wives and mothers
- religion and sin
- hypocrisy - men’s immorality accepted
What are some dramatic techniques that Ibsen uses?
- All the action in 1 room, claustrophobic intensity, nothing is missed.
- Dramatic irony
- settings - letterbox, stove etc
- lighting
- euphemistic language - ‘the miracle’, ‘death’
- symbolism - macaroons, tarantella, drowning, animals.
- entrances and exits
- asides - duologues
- characters styles of speaking - Nora’s change
What quotations show Nora’s breakthrough from subjugation to individuality?
‘I must satisfy myself which is right, society or I’.
‘I’ve been your doll wife, just as I used to be papa’s doll child.’
‘Yes Torvald. I’ve changed.’
What are some quotations in reference to money that Ibsen has used?
‘spendthrift’ ‘ squanderbird’
‘a wife cannot borrow money without her husband’s consent’
What are some quotations in reference to women and the patronising tone against them?
‘oh how like a woman’ page 25
‘little miss independent’s in trouble and needs a man to rescue her.’
‘it was almost like being a man’ page 37
‘no one to live for anymore’ page 32
‘a woman who has sold herself for the sake of others, does not make the same mistake again.’
What are the 4 key themes in Blake’s poetry?
Childhood, religion, love and town and country
What key poems fall under the ‘Childhood’ theme?
Holy Thursday (I), The Schoolboy, Little Boy Lost, The Chimney Sweeper (I&E), Echoing Green
What key poems fall under the ‘Religion’ theme?
Garden of Love, Holy Thursday (I&E), Chimney Sweeper (I&E), Little Boy Lost, London
What key poems fall under the ‘Love’ theme?
My Pretty Rose Tree, London, The Sick Rose, The Echoing Green, The Chimney Sweeper (I&E), Little Boy Lost
What key poems fall under the ‘Town and Country’ theme?
The Echoing Green, Garden of Love, The Schoolboy, Chimney Sweeper (I&E), London, Holy Thursday (I&E)
What are the top poems you will think to use?
Garden of Love Little Boy Lost London Chimney Sweeper Holy Thursday Echoing Green
What are some contextual issues to consider in Blake’s poetry?
French and American revolutions Industrial revolution Power of institutions Slavery Child labour and exploitation Education - charity Strict attitudes to marriage
What are some of Blake’s poetic techniques?
imagery
rhyme or break of
pronouns - narrators
rhythm - tetrameter (4 beats), trimeter - deviations
word choices - more than one meaning lexical features
repetition
What are some contextual issues to consider for Harvest?
Feudal system, enclosure acts - sheep farming, capitalism
Lack of cultural diversity
Individualism and insularity
