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Milett ADH

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Nora confronts every convention and male prejudice that cages her

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Strindberg adh

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Ibsen revealed marriage to be far from a divine institution -

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Simone de Beauvoir rossetti

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stated that women are “objects” in patriarchal society

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Winter: My Secret simon avery power

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she manipulates power so she is in control

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“no” no thank you john

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No Thank you, John - asserts a woman’s right to say “no”

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voice simon mold rossetti

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Rossetti gives a vibrant voice to the female experience,

despite Victorian women being denied social, economic and political freedom

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Hattie Morahan, ADH

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the play is just as “relatable” now

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Lesa scholl the restrictions placed on women

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pulls down the ideological boundaries of femininity

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women eleanor marx

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are the creatures of the organised tyranny of men

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emancipation robert brustein

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Ibsen was “completely indifferent to (female emancipation) except as a metaphor for individual freedom”

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Alice kirby laura as a restless brrok

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Laura described as a “restless brook” suggesting she is bored with the constraints of domestic life -

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fruit in gm

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Laura’s interest in the Goblin’s “fruit globes” has been seen by critics as an allegory for her exploring her sexuality

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Goblin market and maude clare

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linked as their punishments are indicative of Victorian society’s attitude towards fallen women - Alice Kirby

Laura is “writhing as one possessed”

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Rossetti’s women

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challenge male authority,

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Nora is purely a BASER

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source of “enjoyment and pleasure” for Torvald -

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interpretations of the tarantella

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1) suggested that it expresses her sexual self

2) manifestation of her suicidal impulses

3) feminist critic, Toril Moi, has suggested that it displays the torment of her soul

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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18th-century writer
A Vindication of the Rights of Women’
women are taught “outward obedience” from infancy

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Ibsen has been seen as Louie Bennett

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“an apostle of the cause of women”

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a vindication of the rights of women ADH

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Mary Wollstonecraft - strengthen the female mind by enlarging it and there will be an end to blind obedience

Nora seems to reflect this attitude at the end - “I must educate myself”