Context adh

Question 1

When and where was A Doll’s House first performed?

Answer 1

1879 in Copenhagen

Question 2

Definition of Ibsenite clement scott

Answer 2

“an unlovely, selfish creed” of individualism - Clement Scott

Question 3

What did Ibsen say in his notes for the play in 1878?

Answer 3

“A woman cannot be herself in contemporary society,
it is an exclusively male society

Feminine conduct is judged from the male point of view

Question 4

How is it a ‘well-made play’? ADH

Answer 4

Revelations in plot are interacted by Krogstad and Miss Linde.

Question 5

Sugar daddy origin

Answer 5

Adolph Spreckels - a sweet manufacturer who married a woman 34 years younger

Died of syphillis

Question 6

Laura Kieler

Answer 6

Ibsens songbird, borrowed money illegally

Ends up in mental asylum by her husband

Question 7

German ending of ADH

Answer 7

Actress refues to leave family so she stays instead

Question 8

Torvald indcues Nora to

Answer 8

Accept the role he has given her

Dismisses Nora as insignificant

Question 9

How many times is must used in ADH

Answer 9

122 times

Asserts characters leaving the status quo undisturbed

Question 10

Songbirds were …. In the 19th century

Answer 10

Kept as pets

Poked with hot needles to make them sing better (the blinded bird POEM)

Question 11

Helmer relies on the dead hand of

Answer 11

Wisdom to restrict nora

Question 12

ADH characters are

Answer 12

Victims of societies

Question 13

Rossetti was keen to maintain indepence
Rejection of marriage proposals

Answer 13

‘Here’s friendship if you like, but love/No thank you John

Question 14

‘’People left the theatre, night after night, pale with excitement, arguing ADH

Answer 14

‘But to leave your home, your husband, your children have you thought what people will say’’

Question 15

Christina suffering a nervous breakdown and diagnosed a religious maniac

Answer 15

I take my heart in my hand / O my God, O my God
TWICE

Question 16

Power and Gender ADH ROSSETTI

Answer 16

I have no father to give me money - Miss Linde

I have…duties to myself - Nora

I never said i loved you John - No Thank You John

My secret mine, and I won’t tell - Winter my secret

I wish and wish i were a man - From the antique

Question 17

Sophie Duncan - there is an element to ms linde

Answer 17

That is lost without someone to serve

Question 18

William Archer. - if she were really the empty headed doll

Answer 18

We hear so much about, the whole point of the play goes

Question 19

Rossetti - there is neither male

Answer 19

Nor female for we all are one

Question 20

Ms Linde : i only feel my life

Answer 20

Unspeakably empty. No one to live for anymore

Question 21

Bradford: although on the diabolic side. Krogstad

Answer 21

Does not have the same passion for evil as your typical bad guy

Question 22

Torvald: before anything else

Answer 22

You are a mother and wife

Question 23

Goblin Market: for there is no friend…

Answer 23

Like a sister

Question 24

Sophie Duncan: Nora puts love

Answer 24

Before legality

Question 25

Ronald Gray: Ibsen makes Helmer grotesque

Answer 25

And reduces the tragic quality of the ending