ADH critical quotes Flashcards
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1
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IBSEN
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“I have never written any play to further a social purpose”
2
Q
Avery
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‘The most famous door slam in history’
3
Q
LEDGER
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‘critical scrutiny of the lives and values of the bourgeois classes’
4
Q
SALLY LEDGER
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Ibsen is ‘critically dissecting ‘modern’ life and all its problems’
5
Q
SAL
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‘Christine Linde acts as a catalyst for Nora’s rebellion’
6
Q
LONG
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Nora seen as ‘a monster and unnatural woman’
7
Q
THOMAS
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‘Torvald…is as much a victim as Nora’
8
Q
Billington
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Play described as “domestic revolution”
9
Q
torvald as a victim of expected gender roles
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10
Q
Gilbert and Gubar
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11
Q
Finney
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- Ibsen not labelling himself as a feminist due to “Ibsen’s frequently voiced disinclination to belong to parties or societies of any kind”
12
Q
Worrall
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- “Nora describes herself her husbands doll and the children as her dolls”
- “under the guise of being a good mother, she plays games with her children”
13
Q
feminist
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perhaps Ibsen’s concerns were neither political nor feminist buy rather human”
14
Q
Guerin
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- “Puts women on a pedestal but also in a cage”
15
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- Ibsen as a “rebel in the field of theatre”
