General Critics Flashcards
Nora’s miracle - Jennette Lee
She performed the miracle by letting herself free
Nora’s Leave - Ronald Gray
Too Theatrical
Nora’s marriage - Brun
[Any normal wife] would throw herself into her husband’s arm
Nora’s Leave - Actress Hedwig
I would Never eave my children! **Ibsen altered the ending = Barbarbric outrage)
Nora’s Power - Actress Hattie Morahan
She exerts her power by using her sexuality
Torvald’s Morals - Ian Johnston
Torvald’s moral code is entirely derived from society’s expectations
Theatrical - Patrick Garland
Torvald’s slaps Nora across the Face - Lack of Love
Toravld’s twist of character - Ronald Gray
Torvald is as much of a victim as Nora
Krogstad as an outsider - Egan
Cynical Social Pariah
Krogstad as a misunderstood man - Lovecraft
No doubt that Krogstad is flawed but it’s these flaws that serve to bring the character to life and make him seem human.
Torvald’s Status - Michael Meyers
Depends upon social security
Nora’s Leave - Valency
An example of female hysteria
Nora’s character - Uddin
Ibsen’s mouthpiece for woman’s emancipation
Nora’s Tarantella - Christensen
beautifully shows the multi-layered tragedy of a woman in a bourgeois marriage
Nora’s Tarantella - Rekdal (Psychoanalytical reading)
Undergoes a physical and psychological transformation
Krogstad and Torvald as villains - Jerome K
villainy is its own reward, he revels in it
Mrs Linde’s purpose - Sally Legder
A catalyst for Nora’s Transformation
Mrs Linde’s purpose - David Thomas
Precipitates the crisis
Mrs Linde as a contemporary woman - Ronald Gray
Represents the lack of options women had at the time
Dr Rank’s love for Nora - Sally Ledger
Deeply and unselfishly in love with her
Dr Rank and his disease - Sally Ledger
The degeneration of the family
Anne Marie’s Role - Miraflores
Angelic archetype in the story, who represents the sacrifices that one has to make in order to secure financial well-being.
Anne Marie’s story - Guggenheim
Economic realities that face women during this era negatively affect all women
Anne Marie’s role - Munoz
Nora’s nanny is a confidante to Nora
ADH’s Contemporary view - Michael Meyers
Illogical and Immoral
ADH form- Ronald Gray
The play does not succumb to Melodrama
ADH as a play - Sally Ledger
critical scrutiny of the lives and values of the bourgeois classes
ADH form - Sally Ledger
Critically dissecting ‘modern’ life and all its problems
ADH’s ending - Elaine N Long
‘The ending was never a success’
Judith Butler
[Gender] is not what something is, but what something does
