Ibsen Critics Flashcards
George Bernard Shaw
“the ideal wife is one who does
everything that her ideal husband
likes and nothing else”
Robert Brustein
Ibsen dramatized “the woman’s revolt against the tyrannizing male”
Ibsen
“a woman cannot be herself in… an
exclusively male society, with laws
made by men”
“I have never written… to a further
social purpose… I am not even sure
what women’s rights really are”
Hedwig Nienmann-Raabe
in Germany in 1880, Hedwig Nienmann-Raabe did not act in the final scene, as she stated, “I would never leave my children”
Muriel Bradbrook
“Nora’s marriage becomes eight
years prostitution”
Michael Billington
“Torvald’s fatal flaw is that he sees
marriage as a performance”
Sophie Duncan
“Nora puts love before legality”
Sally Ledger
the pay is “a critical scrutiny of the lives and values of the bourgeois classes”
“Nora finds herself in opposition to
the demands of a hostile society”
Samuel Rufus
“his love is only a form of possessing
her and exploiting her completely”
Harold Clurman
“Nora’s abandonment of her home is
not an act of defiance so much as a
gesture of despair”
Ronald Grey
“her flirtation with Rank is another
indication of the more spirited
woman beneath the convention- respecting surface”
Gail Finney
“his concern with the human soul cut across class and gender lines”
