Ibsen A05 Flashcards
Ibsen’s view
‘A woman cannot be herself in society… which is an exclusively masculine society’
Guo Yuehua, 2009
‘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’
August Strindberg, 1884
‘Marriage was revealed as being a far from divine institution, people stopped regarding it as an automatic provider of absolute bliss’
Michael Meyer, 1971
‘[Dr. Rank] has been like a member of the living dead extracting whatever life he can from his fleeting encounters with Nora’
Theodore Dalrymple, 2005
‘It was Ibsen who first realised that mundane daily life, relayed in completely naturalistic language contained within it all the ingredients of tragedy’
David V. Urban
- ‘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’