A Doll's House Critics Flashcards
Eric Bogh (Danish playwright) 1879.
“a play so simple in its action and so every day in its dress”
August Strindberg (Playwright) 1884.
“marriage was revealed as being a far from divine institution, people stopped regarding it as an automatic provider of absolute bliss”
Eleanor Marx (Feminist socialist who translated the play) 1886.
“women are the creatures of an organized tyranny of men”
Ibsen (In the speech to the Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights) 1898.
“I have never written any play to further a social purpose.”
Michael Meyer (Ibsen biographer) 1965.
“The theme of A Doll’s House was the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is, and to strive to become that person.”
Joan Templeton (The Doll House Backlash) 1989.
“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,”
L Code (Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories) 2000.
“[it is] women’s disproportionate confinement in private spheres [that] correlates with women’s subordinate status”
