critics Flashcards
August Strindberg (playwrite1884)
‘marriage was revealed for being a far from divine institution , people stopped regarding it as a automatic provider of absolute bliss’
review in social Demokraten 1879, thousands of such doll homes
‘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…
Eleanor Marx (feminist socialist who translated the play) 1884
‘women are the creatures of an organised tyranny of men’
Micheal Mayer (Iibsen biographer) 1965
‘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’
Kate Millet (sexual politics) 1971
‘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’
Joan Templeton (the dolls house backlash) 1989, comedy and tradgedy
‘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’
review in social demokraten, duty to leave
’ 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’
