AO3 Flashcards
Date ADH premiered
21 Dec 1879
Who was the model for Nora?
She forged a bank draft and the strain of this drove her to an asylum
Darwin’s theory of evolution
Influenced naturalism and ideas of determinism
He convicted that moral as well as physical qualities can be inherited (sins of the father).
Napoleonic code
Applied widely in Europe after the French Revolution
Prevented women from engaging in financial transactions
Many women chose not to marry because of these laws and led to a rise in suffragettes.
Who was Søren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher, sometimes known as the father of existentialism- the idea that a person is shaped by the choices that they make not how they are born.
Although Ibsen professed that he had not read his work, Nora’s problems reflect the ideas that Kierkegaard expressed.
Who influenced Ibsen’s interest in the theme of inherited illness?
His friend Georg Brandes, who encountered the David family in 1866. Caroline David was with a man who she claimed had a sexually transmitted disease; Brandes was further convinced that her husband was also her half-brother.
The ‘Well Made Play’
Named by Scribe, ADH follows this very clearly
Exposition sets up the situation, Act 1’s conversations between Helmer, Mrs Linde and Krogstad. The Act falls on a note of high suspense with the first demand of Krogstad.
Development and complication in Act 2 as Nora struggles to fix the situation, then the tarantella. In Act 3 the audience are driven towards the climax and we see a possible resolution with Krogstad’s new founded goodwill. At the denouement (revelation of all secrets) the audience are conditioned to expect Helmer’s forgiveness which is only seen after his spontaneous display of selfishness -rendering it meaningless. The end serves as a reversal of expectation as her final exit is not so much an ending as it is the beginning of her new life.
When did Norwegian women enter education ?
1876
Criminological research finding at the time
Young people were not corrupted by lying mothers but by poverty and homelessness
Until when we’re married women under their gusband’s guardianship?
1888
What type of debates debates were becoming more prevalent in the 1880s?
Gender double
What was unestablished in Norway?
Aristocracy, unlike most of Europe
When we’re single women given the right to work in certain trades, and what was this followed by (+when)?
1830s, followed by inheritance rights and full legal capacity in the 1850s and 60s.
What association was established in 1884
Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights
Why did they extend the rights of other women to vote?
They extended the rights for women with a significant personal income to vote in 1901, as all men were given the right to vote in 1898 and there was fear of lower class men voting for socialist policies.
Link this in to real change not being achieved.
