critics

Question 1

August Strindberg (playwrite1884)

Answer 1

‘marriage was revealed for being a far from divine institution , people stopped regarding it as a automatic provider of absolute bliss’

Question 2

review in social Demokraten 1879

Answer 2

‘there are thousands of such doll-homes , where the husband treats his wife and child he amuses himself with , and so that is what the wives become… it is this young woman’s duty to leave this husband , who slowly sacrifices her on the alter of his egotism , and who fails to understand her value as a human being’

Question 3

Eleanor Marx (feminist socialist who translated the play) 1884

Answer 3

‘women are the creatures of an organised tyranny of men’

Question 4

Micheal Mayer (Iibsen biographer) 1965

Answer 4

‘the theme of a dolls house was the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is , and to strive to become that person’

Question 5

Kate Millet (sexual politics) 1971

Answer 5

‘Nora confronted every convention and chivalrous masculine prejudice that cages her within a toys structure , hoping to ensure that she would remain a hose pet and infant there forever’

Question 6

Joan Templeton (the dolls house backlash) 1989

Answer 6

‘ibsens Nora is not just a woman arguing for female liberation; she is much more. she embodies the comedy as well as the tragedy of modern life’