critics ibsen

Question 1

erik vullum (doll’s house)

Answer 1

Nora’s decision to leave her family was an “act of selfishness”

Question 2

george bernard shaw (doll’s house)

Answer 2

The audience became “guilty creatures sitting at a play”

Question 3

Eleanor Marx (Doll’s House)

Answer 3

Valued Nora as a complex and moral character - said that other negative responses were distorted by narrow English attitudes to virtue

Question 4

Clement Scott (Doll’s House)

Answer 4

Accused Ibsen of creating “sensationalist filfth” - think about Ibsen being the father of realism and the irony in this statement

Question 5

Arthur Miller (Doll’s House)

Answer 5

Every Ibsen play begins with the unwritten words, “Now listen here”

Question 6

Alisa Solomon

Answer 6

Ibsen “reveals the artificiality of the well-made play and… the artificiality of the well-made woman

Question 7

Mary Wollstonecroft

Answer 7

“Women were educated to be virtuous and pleasing”