Ibsen A05 Flashcards
1
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Ibsen’s view
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‘A woman cannot be herself in society… which is an exclusively masculine society’
2
Q
Guo Yuehua, 2009
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‘Torvald sees women as both child-like, helpless creatures… his attitude towards his wife is a mixture of a sense of possession and sexual passion’
3
Q
August Strindberg, 1884
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‘Marriage was revealed as being a far from divine institution, people stopped regarding it as an automatic provider of absolute bliss’
4
Q
Michael Meyer, 1971
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‘[Dr. Rank] has been like a member of the living dead extracting whatever life he can from his fleeting encounters with Nora’
5
Q
Theodore Dalrymple, 2005
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‘It was Ibsen who first realised that mundane daily life, relayed in completely naturalistic language contained within it all the ingredients of tragedy’
6
Q
David V. Urban
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- ‘Nora and Torvald exhibit a ‘religion of Torvald’’
- ‘Nora’s ‘religion of Torvald’ is based on her expectation that Torvald will exhibit the Christlike office of bearing Nora’s sins’
- ‘Torvald shatters Nora’s expectations’ so she instead ‘exhibits a preoccupation with her own self’
