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Henrik Ibsen Flashcards

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What does Sandra Saari state that Henrik Ibsen wrote on the premise of?

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“Males and females demonstrate no essential difference in their spiritual makeup”

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George Bernard Shaw argues that what happens at the end of the play?

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the woman’s eyes are opened; and instantly her doll’s dress is thrown off and her husband left staring at her, helpless

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Ibsen: I have been more the poet and ________ than people generally seem inclined to believe.”

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less the social philosopher

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Who argues that Nora plays the role of coquette throughout to gain empowerment in a male-dominated world?

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Otten

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Who argues that Nora is a trophy for Helmer who he can parade around other men and use for sexual gratification?

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Johnston

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Ibsen: woman is judged by ______ as though she weren’t a woman but a man

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masculine law

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Ibsen wrote a draft of A Doll’s House. What does Sandra Saari that the ending singing performance in the draft is soley for?

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male apprehension and appreciation

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In the draft of a doll’s house, what does Sandra Saari say is the key difference in Helmer?

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all ‘heroic elements have disappeared’

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In the published copy of A Doll’s House, what scene is added?

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Helmer’s arousal

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What does Baldick say the problem play discusses?

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contemporary controversy of public importance

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Who argues that the ‘history of drama’ begins anew with Ibsen?

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George Steiner

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Who argues that Ibsen’s realism is highly and powerfully symbolic?

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Joan Templeton

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Who argues that Ibsen’s works are period works?

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Richard Schechner

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Which part of the set represents ‘security, authority, and patriarchal power’?

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The door to Torvald’s study

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Which part of the set represents the private, sexual life of Nora and Helmer?

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The nursery

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Who argues that over the course of the play, the patriarchal door to Torvald’s study will “lose all authority”, the door to the outside will become a symbol of liberation rather than fear and damage, and the world of “gender playacting” represented by the nursery door will “collapse like a house of cards”

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Johnston

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Which production of A Doll’s House features small men and Nora taking off her clothes and wig at the end?

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Mabou Mines

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Which production of A Doll’s House features 3 Nora’s from different time periods?

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Stef Smith

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In Victorian Society, who is usually taking by the ear?

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Children

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How does Ibsen deliberately choose to write?

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Colloquially`

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What did Ibsen nickname Laura Kieler?

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‘the lark’

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What 3 things happened to Laura Kieler because of her husband Victor?

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Separation
Children removed from care
Asylum

23
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What did Ibsen later write?

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Physcological studies of women

24
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What do critics agree about A Doll’s House could’ve been categorised as until the end of the play?

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could’ve been a modern drama broadcasting comfortable moral lesson

25
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Who should Rank traditionally represent?

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An older role model

26
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George Steiner: the play is “founded on the belief…that women must and can….”

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be raised to the dignity of man,

27
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Usually at the end of a comedy, there is what?

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A marriage

28
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What theory was around at the time that linked to the ‘scientific detachment’ of A Doll’s House?

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Theory of evolution

29
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In Norweigan and wider middle class society, there was an idea of Financial success without debt, Good morals, Patriarchal family, and a Housewife / Angel in the House who served her mother and family. What is this called?

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Bourgeois respectability’

30
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What class was Ibsen born into?

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Upper middle class

31
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What was Norway becoming?

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Industrialised

32
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Who argues that the emergence of a new middle class brought a hyper obsession with money?

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Hagemann

33
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Who came up with ‘bourgeouis respectability’?

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Willcoxon

34
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When did the ‘first wave of feminism’ begin in Norway?

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1879

35
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When was A Doll’s House first performed?

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1879

36
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Who was the founder of Norweigan feminism and an inspiration of Ibsen’s?

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Camilla Collet

37
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Ibsen stated that the _________ was unknown to him, although he did hope to expose what “has ever been a cause of human beings.”

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woman’s cause

38
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Ibsen: I may almost say that it was for the sake of _____ that the whole play was written

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Last scene

39
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What did Ibsen call Laura Kieler?

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My skylark

40
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Did Laura Keiler come home from the mental asylum?

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Yes - she returned to her husband after 2 years

41
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What did Ibsen say that Victor did?

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‘Looked on the affair with male eyes’

42
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Did Laura Keiler ask her husband to take her back?

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Yes - she begged

43
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When was there an economic boom?

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1843

44
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What was Norway becoming?

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More industrialised

45
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What became larger in Norway?

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upper middle class`

46
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Who states that economic prosperity in Norway led to an obsession or overawareness of money?

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Hagemann

47
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Despite his financial struggle, what did the Ibsens still keep?

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Servants

48
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Sandra Saari argues that Nora went from female to what?

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A human being

49
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Which theory in the 19th century influenced beliefs in Religion?

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Darwinist

50
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Christina Rossetti was the only woman to contribute to what?

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The 1850 Germ

51
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In the German ending, what happens?

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Nora stays with her family

52
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Which kind of play is politicised and has reflective detachment?

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Brechtian

53
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What does Torvald call the Tarantella?

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Violent

Lit: A Doll's House & Rossetti (4 decks)

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