A Doll's House A05 Flashcards
FEMINISM- Gail Finley
“Ibsen was widely credited with virtually inventing the emancipated woman”
FEMINISM- AM Rekdal
“the drama was immediately sen as a feminist firebrand”
FEMINISM- Linnea
Women were “neither allowed to pursue higher education nor substantially vote or assume more than basic property rights”
Jessica Chastain revival of A Doll’s House
no props and no costume
Ibsen quote on women’s rights
‘Decline the offer of being said to have worked for the women’s rights movement. I’m not really sure what women’s rights really are
Young Vic Theatre Staging
The audience has access to all the different compartments. Nora’s bedroom (room of her own) counter to entrapment
Restlessness caused by constant movement, echos Nora’s childish restlessness
The constant turning highlighted the relentless passing of time, hurtling towards tragedy
A viewer complained of feeling slightly carsick
Nora comes back from the party wearing an extraordinary bright red sexy dress.
Torvald is delighted at how she performed and how everyone has been so taken by her. We’re aware it’s about putting on a mask, and all of life is about theatre
Claire bloom’s 1971 version of Nora
went on tour and played Nora in the film
In an interview said
In that my character was my two halves, the frivolous childish woman and the stern woman, I wouldn’t say I learnt anything from playing Nora, rather I assimilated all my experiences as a woman and brought it together as a woman
Janet McTeer
In response to people saying she’s over the top ‘she is, I’ve created somebody who’s acting and realises she’s doing it’
Hattie Morahan
She remains on stage and different characters come on stage, we see her transform befire our eyes
Who is this woman?
Why is she so manipulative?
Why s she suddenly behaving like this and playing this game
Because she has no conventional/legitimate power the only means he has to control her life is though playing other people
EARLY CRITICISM OF NORA- Schlueter
Nora is deceitful and manipulative from the start”
EARLY CRITICISM ON NORA ‘DEFENSE’ - Sally Hedger
Sally Hedger
“a number of other female characters in nineteenth- century literature are coded as lunatics’’
MARRIAGE- Michael Myers
“In attempting to behave according to convention they developed a marriage based on illusion”
SOCIAL CONTEXT: VICTORIAN ERA - Gro Hagemann
Extending economic rights to “married women was looked upon as an attack on the idea of marriage itself”
HUMANIST- AM Rekdal
“not concerned with feminism but with the genesis of a human being”
Michael Myer, Ibsen, 1985
In Germany, Ibsen was accused of ‘loving the repulsive’, and the ending of A Doll’s House was called ‘illogical and immoral’
