General Critics

Question 1

Nora’s miracle - Jennette Lee

Answer 1

She performed the miracle by letting herself free

Question 2

Nora’s Leave - Ronald Gray

Answer 2

Too Theatrical

Question 3

Nora’s marriage - Brun

Answer 3

[Any normal wife] would throw herself into her husband’s arm

Question 4

Nora’s Leave - Actress Hedwig

Answer 4

I would Never eave my children! **Ibsen altered the ending = Barbarbric outrage)

Question 5

Nora’s Power - Actress Hattie Morahan

Answer 5

She exerts her power by using her sexuality

Question 6

Torvald’s Morals - Ian Johnston

Answer 6

Torvald’s moral code is entirely derived from society’s expectations

Question 7

Theatrical - Patrick Garland

Answer 7

Torvald’s slaps Nora across the Face - Lack of Love

Question 8

Toravld’s twist of character - Ronald Gray

Answer 8

Torvald is as much of a victim as Nora

Question 9

Krogstad as an outsider - Egan

Answer 9

Cynical Social Pariah

Question 10

Krogstad as a misunderstood man - Lovecraft

Answer 10

No doubt that Krogstad is flawed but it’s these flaws that serve to bring the character to life and make him seem human.

Question 11

Torvald’s Status - Michael Meyers

Answer 11

Depends upon social security

Question 12

Nora’s Leave - Valency

Answer 12

An example of female hysteria

Question 13

Nora’s character - Uddin

Answer 13

Ibsen’s mouthpiece for woman’s emancipation

Question 14

Nora’s Tarantella - Christensen

Answer 14

beautifully shows the multi-layered tragedy of a woman in a bourgeois marriage

Question 15

Nora’s Tarantella - Rekdal (Psychoanalytical reading)

Answer 15

Undergoes a physical and psychological transformation

Question 16

Krogstad and Torvald as villains - Jerome K

Answer 16

villainy is its own reward, he revels in it

Question 17

Mrs Linde’s purpose - Sally Legder

Answer 17

A catalyst for Nora’s Transformation

Question 18

Mrs Linde’s purpose - David Thomas

Answer 18

Precipitates the crisis

Question 19

Mrs Linde as a contemporary woman - Ronald Gray

Answer 19

Represents the lack of options women had at the time

Question 20

Dr Rank’s love for Nora - Sally Ledger

Answer 20

Deeply and unselfishly in love with her

Question 21

Dr Rank and his disease - Sally Ledger

Answer 21

The degeneration of the family

Question 22

Anne Marie’s Role - Miraflores

Answer 22

Angelic archetype in the story, who represents the sacrifices that one has to make in order to secure financial well-being.

Question 23

Anne Marie’s story - Guggenheim

Answer 23

Economic realities that face women during this era negatively affect all women

Question 24

Anne Marie’s role - Munoz

Answer 24

Nora’s nanny is a confidante to Nora

Question 25

ADH’s Contemporary view - Michael Meyers

Answer 25

Illogical and Immoral

Question 26

ADH form- Ronald Gray

Answer 26

The play does not succumb to Melodrama

Question 27

ADH as a play - Sally Ledger

Answer 27

critical scrutiny of the lives and values of the bourgeois classes

Question 28

ADH form - Sally Ledger

Answer 28

Critically dissecting ‘modern’ life and all its problems

Question 29

ADH’s ending - Elaine N Long

Answer 29

‘The ending was never a success’

Question 30

Judith Butler

Answer 30

[Gender] is not what something is, but what something does