A Doll’s House - AO3

Question 1

Laura Kiler

Answer 1

A model for Nora. She forged a bank draft and the strain drove her to an asylum

Question 2

Industrialisation

Answer 2

In Ibsen’s life, time moved from the majority of people being involved in agriculture to the economy becoming capitalist and industrialised

Question 3

Bankruptcy

Answer 3

A common theme in the 19th century play. Although it was not more common than today. The word was sometimes spelt with asterisks as if it was an obscenity

Question 4

Women and money

Answer 4

Nora and Mrs Linde would not earn as much as a man. Flora Tristan was told by a French factory owner, ‘we pay (women) less and that’s very fair, because they are quicker than men. They would earn too much if we paid them at the same rate’

Question 5

Women workers…

Answer 5

earned less than men, had little status and middle class women would leave work if married. Across Europe, a middle class man’s reputation was enhanced by a wife who stayed at home

Question 6

Ending of the play

Answer 6

Ibsen was forced to change the ending for the first German production