ibsens life Flashcards
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Family and early influence
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- born to a affluent merchant family in a prosperous port town
-family were members of the merchant elite until 1835 the family was forced to sell their home due to a financial downturn - by 1950s ibsens father’s business had run out and he was living off his children and family
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family culture
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his family claimed much cultural reference from across Europe rather then the more limited Norway, this inevitably formed Ibsen’s cultural identity
3
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ibsens upbringing and infuence on a dolls house
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- many claim ibsens fathers financial ‘ruin’ was the inspiration for characters like Krogstad, brought low
-Due to his immediate family facing financial collapse whilst he had left home, the story he saw was one of the crumbling old Norway and formation of a new democratic and socially liberal society
4
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who was Laura Keiler???
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- a good friend of ibsens
-Laura signed an illegal loan to save her husbands life , to find a cure for his turburculosis
-Laura has written to ibson asking him to recommend her to his publisher as she needed the money from book sales to finance the treatment , Ibsen refused and thus did she sign the loan
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what happened to Laura Kieler
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- she was found for signing the loan , her husband divorced her then had her committed to an asylum
-ibson wrote the play whilst she was in the asylum, feeling deep shock and guilt for the scandal he could have prevented
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Ibsons view on the play
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- called the play ‘a modern tragedy’
-stated his inspiration as that ‘a woman cannot be herself in modern society’ as is is ‘an exclusively male society, with laws made by mend with prosecutors and judges who assess famine conduct from a masculine standpoint!!)
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what did ibson say at the Norweigan association for women right in 1898
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- he ‘must disclaim the honour of have consciously worked for the women’s rights movemnt’ since he wrote ‘without any conscious thought of making propaganda’ his task having been ‘ the description of humanity’
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Ibsen on the alternate ending in Germany
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- called it a ‘barbaric act of violence’ and urged theatres to use the original ending as the German ending totally distorted the entire message of the play.
