ADH critical quotes

Question 1

IBSEN

Answer 1

“I have never written any play to further a social purpose”

Question 2

Avery

Answer 2

‘The most famous door slam in history’

Question 3

LEDGER

Answer 3

‘critical scrutiny of the lives and values of the bourgeois classes’

Question 4

SALLY LEDGER

Answer 4

Ibsen is ‘critically dissecting ‘modern’ life and all its problems’

Question 5

SAL

Answer 5

‘Christine Linde acts as a catalyst for Nora’s rebellion’

Question 6

LONG

Answer 6

Nora seen as ‘a monster and unnatural woman’

Question 7

THOMAS

Answer 7

‘Torvald…is as much a victim as Nora’

Question 8

Billington

Answer 8

Play described as “domestic revolution”

Question 9

torvald as a victim of expected gender roles

Question 10

Gilbert and Gubar

Question 11

Finney

Answer 11

• Ibsen not labelling himself as a feminist due to “Ibsen’s frequently voiced disinclination to belong to parties or societies of any kind”

Question 12

Worrall

Answer 12

• “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”

Question 13

feminist

Answer 13

perhaps Ibsen’s concerns were neither political nor feminist buy rather human”

Question 14

Guerin

Answer 14

• “Puts women on a pedestal but also in a cage”

Answer 15

• Ibsen as a “rebel in the field of theatre”

Question 16

McNamara

Answer 16

Torvalds apparent strength is wholly dependant on Noras weakness

Question 17

shaw

Answer 17

The ideal wife is one who does everything that her husband loves and nothing more

Question 18

schlucter

Answer 18

Nora is deceitful and manipulative from the start

Question 19

worall

Answer 19

Nora uses her sexuality to get her way

Question 20

Soloski

Answer 20

use with worall “Noras sexuality as the form of power most available to her”

Question 21

Crawford

Answer 21

Describes Nora as “greedy”

Question 22

Baruch

Answer 22

Nora is a rehabilitated eve who has the courage to leave the garden