The Outsider Flashcards
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- Krogstad
- alienated from society (forgery)
- unscrupulous and dishonest
- blackmails nora, morally corrupt
- Forced into morally questionable action as a result of rigid + unmerciful forces of society
- AO3: high moral expectations in society
- ‘I am a shipwrecked man clinging to a spar’
- Redeemed by marrying Linde
- AO5: Egen ‘cynical social pariah’
- April 1864: Ibsen self-imposed, self-impoverished ‘exiled’, left Norway for Rome via Copenhagen (experienced outsider)
- Maude Clare
- alienated from society due to unmarried status
- not pitied, married woman wins ultimately
- 1859-1870: Rossetti helps women at Highgate Penitentiary. believes in forgiveness and fallen women should not be outcasts for rest of life.
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- Christine Linde
- no children, working woman
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