Secrets And Secrecy Flashcards
Rossetti texts
Winter: My Secret
Maude Clare
ADH moments
Torvald finds out Nora’s secret
Dr Rank confesses his love for Nora
Nora lies to Torvald about the macaroons
Winter: My Secret quotes
“My secrets mine, and I won’t tell”
“A veil, a cloak, and other wraps”
“…not too much sun nor too much cloud”
Maude Clare quotes
“My lord was pale with inward strife”
“Gazed long on pale Maude Clare”
Ibsen context
- ibsen felt that husband and wife should live as equals, free to become their own human beings
- had a child out of wedlock
- hidden poverty
Rossetti context
- wrestled with balancing religion and love
- promiscuous lifestyle of the pre-raphaelite brotherhood had to be concealed
ADH critics
Duncan
Gray
Crawford
Rossetti critics
Gill
Galt
Escobar
Torvald finding out quotes
- “wretched woman!… do you understand what you’ve done?”
- “- a hypocrite, a liar - worse, worse - a criminal”
Rank confession quotes
“I have loved you as deeply as anyone else has. Was that horrid of me?”
Nora’s macaroons quotes
- “not a little nibble at a macaroon?”
- “no, torvald - i promise you, honestly - !”