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Question 1

What is the structure of ADH?

Answer 1

Freytag’s Pyramid

Question 2

What is Freytag’s pyramid? How does it relate to A Dolls House?

Answer 2

1. Exposition
2. Rising Action
3. Climax
4. Falling action
5. Denouement

Towards the end…
Peripeteia: Reversal of action
Anagnorisis: Realisation
Catharsis: Relief

Question 3

Why did Ibsen cut it down from 5 to 3?

Answer 3

Realistic
Emphasis on psychology
Intensify the force

Question 4

What is the plot and subplot of ADH?

Answer 4

Plot: Nora and Torvald, Krogstad
Subplot: Mrs Linde and krogstad | Nora and Dr Rank | Anne Marie

Parallels to illuminate Nora’s predicament

Question 5

What are the stock types for each character?

Answer 5

Usual eternal triangle
Stage Villain/Spectre at the Feast
Woman with a past

Question 6

What language is used for Nora?

Answer 6

Genteel exclamatory —> Assertiveness

Question 7

What language is used for Torvald?

Answer 7

Paternalism, Patronising

Question 8

What language is used for Krogstad?

Answer 8

Self-contempt, Disrespectful

Question 9

What language is used for Dr Rank?

Answer 9

Figures of Speech, Sophisticated

Question 10

What language is used for Mrs Linde?

Answer 10

Bitter, Direct

Question 11

What does Nora mean?

Answer 11

Light, Honour, resonance to Norway

Question 12

What does Torvald mean?

Answer 12

compound consisting of ’Thor’ (god of thunder) and ’vald’ (literally, ’the chosen one’)

Question 13

What does Krogstad mean?

Answer 13

a compound consisting of ’krog’ (crooked) and stad (city)

Question 14

What does Christine Linde mean?

Answer 14

Associations to Christ and therefore the Christian virtues of mercy, humility, sacrifice, diligence, patience, faith, kindness

Question 15

What is the staging like?

Answer 15

Looking through a fourth wall
Props such as those of the motifs