Ibsen and Rossetti Flashcards
Ibsen
“I am not even quite clear as to just what this woman’s rights movement really is”
Kohl
exploded a bomb onto contempory life’
Strindberg
‘marriage is revealed as less than a divine institution’
Bjorn Hemmer
‘Torvald reveals himself as being a pitiable and egotistic slave of the male society’
Micheal Myers
‘Ibsen shows romantic love to be an illusion, inhibiting the free development of individuals”
Ronal Grey
“her flirtation with Rank … is another indication of the more spirited woman beneath the convention respecting surface’
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‘Christine Linde acts as a catalyst for Nora’s rebellion
Ian Johnson
‘Torvalds moral code is entirely derived from societies expectations’
Janette Lee
‘She herself performs the miracle that sets her free’
Bradbrook
‘Nora’s marriage becomes eight years’ prostitution
Micheal Myers
‘its them is the need of every individual to find out what kind of person he or she really is and strive to become that person
Langas
‘Society deceives families and wives into believing they are free to pursue their own domestic lives’
Ibsen
a women cannot be herself in contemporary society, it is an exclusively male society with laws drafted by men
Steve Unwin
she’ll have no status in society, a real outcast, it’s a real disaster- that doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t happen. That’s what’s so profound about it
Polly Teale
‘all the men in the play have a strong association with death’
