Paper 1 Q3 Crit

Question 1

Early negative critics of Ibsen’s ADH

Answer 1

Brun
- The ending’s “screaming dissonance” defied common sense.

Meyer
- The ending was “illogical and repulsive”.

Question 2

Early critics who supported Ibsen

Answer 2

“Henrick Ibsen and the birth of modernism” by Moi includes quotes of early left-wing supporters.
- “our own everyday life has been placed on the stage and condemned”

Question 3

What Ibsen was doing to the audience

Answer 3

Shaw
- “sharpshooting at the audience”

Question 4

What some felt of Ibsen’s naturalism

Answer 4

Around WW2, naturalism is called into question by Adorno
- “outdated”

Question 5

Critical opinions regarding presentation of sex in ADH

Answer 5

Meyer
- “nothing to do with the sexes”

Templeton
- “The power of ADH lies not beyond but in its feminism”

Question 6

Coleridge’s romanticism

Answer 6

Holmes
- “Like all the Romantics, Coleridge was interested in exploring such extreme states of mind or feeling”

Question 7

What Wordsworth perhaps thought of Coleridge’s poetry

Answer 7

Buchan
- “Wordsworth looked on Coleridge’s contributions as little more than a sop to popular taste”

Question 8

Opinions on Christabel’s mystery

Answer 8

Swinburne
- “mystery of magical evil is imbued with sweetness”

Question 9

Dejection: an Ode showed what?

Answer 9

Wallen
- Unrequited love and sickness added up to “dry up his poetic power”.

Question 10

Bloomsbury commentary criticism of A Doll’s House was…

Answer 10

Helmer is “as much a victim of his society’s attitudes as Nora”