A doll's house/ Rossetti critics

Question 1

M.W Brun (A Doll’s house)

Answer 1

“A real wife would accept her husband’s forgiveness and throw herself into her husband’s arms”

Question 2

Joan Templeton (FEMINIST - A doll’s house)

Answer 2

“Nora’s liberation is not a rejection of love but a bold declaration of her own right to selfhood”

Question 3

Terry Eagleton (MARXIST - A doll’s house)

Answer 3

“The marriage contract in Ibsen’s play exposes the economic inequality between the genders”

Question 4

Janet Adelman (FEMINIST - Rossetti)

Answer 4

“Rossetti’s poetry presents a woman trapped by their own desires, but also offers them a means of self-salvation through acts of sisterhood or personal growth”

Question 5

Sandra Gilbert (FEMINIST - Rossetti)

Answer 5

“Rossetti’s women are simultaneously oppressed and defiant, revealing the deep conflict between self-sacrifice and assertion of independence”

Question 6

Christine Lawson (GENDER IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE - Rossetti)

Answer 6

“Rossetti’s poetry speaks of a hidden self that is often suppressed by the rigid gender roles and expectations placed on women in Victorian society”