A05 Flashcards
Rossetti: Galt
‘the conventions of society could not shake’
‘that she had her own agenda in life’
Winter my secret: Simon Avery
‘Behind this playfulness, however, is an intriguing study in the manipulation of power’
Marsh- psychoanalytical
Portrayal of Goblins as animalistic- incessant state of melancholy
suggests this was because of an experience of sexual molestation. Her father emerges as the probable culprit.
ADH- modern writers
‘ADH by Henrik Ibsen is more relevant than ever’
Meyer
ADH
‘The theme of ADH 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. ‘
ADH- feminist?
An alternative ending was crafted in which Nora melodramatically revokes her decision to leave: ‘Motherless! Ah, though it is a sin against myself, I can not leave them’
Called this a ‘barbaric outrage’
Stringberg goes as far to call the play ‘an act of male treachery on Ibsen’s part’.
Skram, a naturalist feminist Norwegian writer praised the play seeing it as ‘what would happen when women in general woke up to the injustices that had been committed against them’
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