Critical comments Flashcards
1
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“Nora is not the childish creature her husband takes her for”
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- by Eleanor Marx Aveling
- 19th century
- feminist perspective
- seen as intelligent + mature woman
2
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“hysterical personality”
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- By Valency
- 20th century
- About Nora; used commonly for women’s “mood swings”
- 1960s - start of womens liberation; outdated view
3
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“immune from feelings of guilt”
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- Valency
- 19th century
- Themes: Betrayal, honesty, trust
4
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“Caged her within a child’s toy structure”
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- By Millett
- 1970s
- Resonates with title of Dolls House
- Themes: identity, freedom, societal expectations, family conventions, appearance vs reality, deception
5
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“silliness and insensitivity”
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- By Byatt
- 2009
- About Nora to Christine
- When gloating about herself/ life
- towards Torvald to manipulate him
- Themes: gender roles, societal expectations
6
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” ‘description of humanity’ “
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- critical perspective on Torvald
- What Ibsen said his work was about, not about Women advancing
- Themes: Societal expectations, influence of past on present,
7
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“Woman’s strength is in her influence”
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- By Stickney Ellis
- Mid 19th century
- How society viewed women
- Themes: Identity, Gender roles, duties and responsibilities
8
Q
” Each completes the other”
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- Ruskin
- 19th century
- Themes: love, societal expectations, duties & responsibilities, Gender Roles
9
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“She was a symbol for women liberating equality”
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- Unesco
- Link to context as to how we’ll interpret Nora today
- About Nora leaving her children
- Themes: identity, religion, love, sacrifice, morals
10
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“Inadequate, a failure in some way”
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- Abrams
- About Nora leaving her children
- Themes: identity, religion, love, sacrifice, morals
11
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“Rossetti wrote poems that give a vibrant voice to the female experience”
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- Mold
- 19th century
- Link to: From the Antique, Shut out, Remember, Song, Maude Clare, No thank you John, goblin market
- Links to Nora
12
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“Rejecting a potential suitor, the speaker asserts right to say no”
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- Simon Avery
- No thank you john,
- Themes: Marriage/ gender/ power/ freedom/ fufilment
- Took Nora several years of marriage to say no
13
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“Biblical ideas of women’s subordination to man” (Rossetti)
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- Simon Avery
- In the round tower/ shut out/ goblin market (garden of eden story)
- Links to Nora leaving children/ patriarchal society
14
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“Faults of women are visited as sins”
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- Carolyn Norton
- Argues “sins of men not visited as faults”
- Goblin market, Maude Clare, From the Antique, In the round tower, Sir Louise
- Nora borrowing money, krogstad blackmailing nora, rank had fathers sins
