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Class notes:
- A doll's house is one of his greatest plays.
- 3 distinct stages, romanitic tools to make irony, social affairs, realism, symbolism
- The father of modern drama-realistic portayals
- physchological exploration- portrays the real world-e.g. the role of women, middle class. It is Ibsen's perspective of the real world, focus on one small section, never is faithful to real life as it is performed on stage.
- Themes of misfortune, financial dificulty within a family, what he grew up with.
- His relationship with his father was not as good as that with his mother-she loved the theater.
- feminist theory, class struggle (Marxist theory), psychoanalytic theory
- He is a moralist, commited to his ethics, at odds with conventional (bravery/courage) values
- He is brave, demonstates courage, doesn't give in to the common view, he put out ideas which could get him shunned. As a result, he was one of the leading voices that liberated women.
- First person to bring this kind of writing out into the open- showed the femine perspective, men came out and said that it was wrong, looking back after he died, people realised what he had done, and made A Doll's House popular as it was realised how it helped to liberate the individual.
- It is an urban middle class family
- Shows the importance of education for a job in order to have financial ease
- Society ruled by patriachal law
- At the time, women were seen as having no power. When Nora walks out at the end, both women and men were shocked as women aren't meant to have this much power (at that time). The german's made an alternative ending at one stage
- The year after it was published, the divorse rate trippled!
- Women can be raised to the dignity of men, he thinks women should be equal to men
- Individual freedom, self determination
- Nora is shown to appear content on the outside, but actually she is not as many women at that time. At the start, she is blinded to her captivity, she has no power to go her own way. Her experience before the play when she take out money forging her
- Relationship which people have with money, success as a person reflects success financially
- Role play, forging character on stage
- A symbolic battle between those with a feminist opinion and the masculine one
- Nora's fears of upsetting her husband
- She sees an example of a free women, Mrs Linde, she likes this idea and wants to be on her own also. She struggles against what she wants, how she has been brought up at this time verses what she wants. Are we socially structured?
- Nora's transformation and escape. She is blinded, then she gains 'sight' and reacts.
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