Symbols adh Flashcards
The Stove adh
provides warmth and family is close when lit.
Becomes more threatening: krogstads knowledge
Helmer stands by stove as Nora dances, wilderness and freedom in dance is threat to marriage
The Lamp adh
Equates a moral barometer.
Begins to grow dark after Nora is flirtatious to Dr Rank in Act 2
When Rank proffesses his feelings, a lamp is brought in and Nora says ‘arent you ashamed of yourself, now that the lamp has come in’
The Door adh
Entrances and exits are dramatic, family threatened by outside forces.
Biggest threat is Krogstad entering ‘unnoticed’, boundary has been crossed
Final plays gesture is ‘noise of the door slamming’, becoming a family outsider by being on the other side of the door
Nora becomes wildly radical, door slam has symbolic weight. Stands as a cultural shift to a new era of individuality.
The Tarantella adh
Tarantella is a ’hot’ italian dance that contrasts scandinavian calm nature
Tarantula poison causes ’tarantism’ - death dance.
Noras death dance. Inappropriate behaviour, stopping Krogstad from opening letter that causes ’social death’
Helmer: i’ll go and sit in the inner room and shut the doors, i shan’t hear a thing’
‘trifle too realistic’
A home that is tainted by ….. ADH
Debts and borrowing can never be a place of freedom and beauty
