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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