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Question 1

article in 1889 written in the Daily News suggested Nora’s change was strange:

Answer 1

her conduct in the end in deserting her home, her husband, and above all her children, simply because she finds that her husband is angry with her”

Question 2

How does Joan Templeton view Nora’s departure in A Doll’s House?

Answer 2

“Nora’s decision to leave Torvald is not just an escape from marriage; it is the breaking of an illusion she’s lived in.”

noras departure ‘‘her leave taking’’ is ‘‘too theatrical’’

Question 3

What is the postmodern interpretation of A Doll’s House?

Answer 3

“Nora’s act of leaving undermines the traditional role of women in both society and the theater, creating a rupture in conventional storytelling.”

Question 4

what is ronald greys thought on the play

Answer 4

is ‘cynically’ exploits ‘popular drama’

Question 5

what does grey think how ibsen presented torvald

Answer 5

‘grotesque’ and reduces the ‘pathos’ even though hes a part of a tragic story.

Question 6

what does grey think noras character lacks

Answer 6

lacks substance and is a villanous portrayal of a melodramatic female

Question 7

what does grey think of nora

Answer 7

exaggerated the leaving scene and is not believable

Question 8

what does grey say about helmers character

Answer 8

too exaggerated to be taken seriously
‘no sign of having seen the kind of man helmer is’

Question 9

ronald greys comment on noras marriage

Answer 9

noras flirtation with rank shows there is something missing in her marriage and she hides her wilder nature beneath beneath her demure obedience

Question 10

what does joan templeton think about the play

Answer 10

feminist work

Question 11

what does templeton believe the play is

Answer 11

reductionist interpretation of the play of a feminist work

reductionist inter- oversimplifying something by focusing on just one aspect.

Question 12

what does temleton consider?

Answer 12

whether Ibsen ‘‘meant to write a play about the highly topical subject of womens right’’

Question 13

what does she say about her work ‘ibsen women 2015’

Answer 13

universal and canonical as well as feminist

Question 14

what does she say in her work ‘ibsen women 2015’

Answer 14

’’ power of a dolls house lies not beyond but in its feminism ‘’

Question 15

whats templetons view on nora

Answer 15

'’embodies the comedy as well as the tragedy of modern life’