A Doll's House Flashcards
Effect on audience
Halvan Koht
“exploded like a bomb into contemporary life”
Effect on audience
Social demokraten
“Who, after seeing this play, has the courage to speak scornfully about run-away wives?”
Effect on audience
Shannon Cron
“Nora’s actions were not only unheard of but also a bad influence on the audience”
Realism
Erik Bogh
“so simple in its action and so everyday in its dress”
Realism
Elizabeth Robins
“like a personal meeting”
Realism
Social Demokraten
“There are thousands of such doll-homes”
Realism
Michael Meyer
“Its theme is the need of every individual to find out what kind of person he or she really is and strive to become that person”
Henrik Ibsen
Shaw
“the greatest living poet and moral teacher”
Feminism
Skram
“she will fight until she has total understanding of her human worth”
Misunderstanding
William Archer
“The critics in fact…fall into the very same misunderstanding of Nora’s character”
Comedy
Joan Templeton
“She embodies the comedy as well as the tragedy of modern life”
Facade
Non and Nick Worrall
“seeming the perfect bourgeois wife”
“His paternalism and her childlike qualities”
Helmer
Laveran
Helmer is “a walking encyclopedia of bourgeois virtues”
Context
Clayhills and Helsing
“Industrialisation changed the household from a unit of production to a unit of consumption”
