GENDER Flashcards
1
Q
‘He’s so proud…’
A
‘…of being a man, it’d be so painful and humiliating for him to know… it’d wreck our relationship’ - Nora
2
Q
‘That is like…’
A
‘a woman’ - Torvald
3
Q
‘My little…’
A
‘skylark/squirrel’ - Torvald
4
Q
‘I would not be a true man….’
A
‘If your feminine helplessness didn’t make you doubly attractive in my eyes’ - Torvald
5
Q
‘No man can be expected to sacrifice…’
A
‘His honour, even for the person he loves. Nora: Millions of million have done it’
6
Q
‘It is… a mistake to see ‘A Doll’s House’ solely as…’
A
‘The tragedy of the female’ - Nick Worral
7
Q
‘Nora confronted every convention…’
A
‘And the chivalrous masculine prejudice that caged her within a child’s toy structure’ - Kate Millett, Sexual Politics
