Henrik Ibsen Flashcards
What does Sandra Saari state that Henrik Ibsen wrote on the premise of?
“Males and females demonstrate no essential difference in their spiritual makeup”
George Bernard Shaw argues that what happens at the end of the play?
the woman’s eyes are opened; and instantly her doll’s dress is thrown off and her husband left staring at her, helpless
Ibsen: I have been more the poet and ________ than people generally seem inclined to believe.”
less the social philosopher
Who argues that Nora plays the role of coquette throughout to gain empowerment in a male-dominated world?
Otten
Who argues that Nora is a trophy for Helmer who he can parade around other men and use for sexual gratification?
Johnston
Ibsen: woman is judged by ______ as though she weren’t a woman but a man
masculine law
Ibsen wrote a draft of A Doll’s House. What does Sandra Saari that the ending singing performance in the draft is soley for?
male apprehension and appreciation
In the draft of a doll’s house, what does Sandra Saari say is the key difference in Helmer?
all ‘heroic elements have disappeared’
In the published copy of A Doll’s House, what scene is added?
Helmer’s arousal
What does Baldick say the problem play discusses?
contemporary controversy of public importance
Who argues that the ‘history of drama’ begins anew with Ibsen?
George Steiner
Who argues that Ibsen’s realism is highly and powerfully symbolic?
Joan Templeton
Who argues that Ibsen’s works are period works?
Richard Schechner
Which part of the set represents ‘security, authority, and patriarchal power’?
The door to Torvald’s study
Which part of the set represents the private, sexual life of Nora and Helmer?
The nursery
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”
Johnston
Which production of A Doll’s House features small men and Nora taking off her clothes and wig at the end?
Mabou Mines
Which production of A Doll’s House features 3 Nora’s from different time periods?
Stef Smith
In Victorian Society, who is usually taking by the ear?
Children
How does Ibsen deliberately choose to write?
Colloquially`
What did Ibsen nickname Laura Kieler?
‘the lark’
What 3 things happened to Laura Kieler because of her husband Victor?
Separation
Children removed from care
Asylum
What did Ibsen later write?
Physcological studies of women
What do critics agree about A Doll’s House could’ve been categorised as until the end of the play?
could’ve been a modern drama broadcasting comfortable moral lesson
Who should Rank traditionally represent?
An older role model
George Steiner: the play is “founded on the belief…that women must and can….”
be raised to the dignity of man,
Usually at the end of a comedy, there is what?
A marriage
What theory was around at the time that linked to the ‘scientific detachment’ of A Doll’s House?
Theory of evolution
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?
Bourgeois respectability’
What class was Ibsen born into?
Upper middle class
What was Norway becoming?
Industrialised
Who argues that the emergence of a new middle class brought a hyper obsession with money?
Hagemann
Who came up with ‘bourgeouis respectability’?
Willcoxon
When did the ‘first wave of feminism’ begin in Norway?
1879
When was A Doll’s House first performed?
1879
Who was the founder of Norweigan feminism and an inspiration of Ibsen’s?
Camilla Collet
Ibsen stated that the _________ was unknown to him, although he did hope to expose what “has ever been a cause of human beings.”
woman’s cause
Ibsen: I may almost say that it was for the sake of _____ that the whole play was written
Last scene
What did Ibsen call Laura Kieler?
My skylark
Did Laura Keiler come home from the mental asylum?
Yes - she returned to her husband after 2 years
What did Ibsen say that Victor did?
‘Looked on the affair with male eyes’
Did Laura Keiler ask her husband to take her back?
Yes - she begged
When was there an economic boom?
1843
What was Norway becoming?
More industrialised
What became larger in Norway?
upper middle class`
Who states that economic prosperity in Norway led to an obsession or overawareness of money?
Hagemann
Despite his financial struggle, what did the Ibsens still keep?
Servants
Sandra Saari argues that Nora went from female to what?
A human being
Which theory in the 19th century influenced beliefs in Religion?
Darwinist
Christina Rossetti was the only woman to contribute to what?
The 1850 Germ
In the German ending, what happens?
Nora stays with her family
Which kind of play is politicised and has reflective detachment?
Brechtian
What does Torvald call the Tarantella?
Violent
