Ibsen Lit Crits Flashcards
(17 cards)
Acton - ‘The majority of women
‘The majority of women (happily for he) are not very much troubled with sexual feeling of any kind’
Adams - Like angels,
Like angels, Nora has no sex. Ibsen meant her to be Everyman.’
Armstrong - ‘too pure
‘too pure and sacred to share in the disgusting lust that afflicted men’
Balaky and Sulaiman - ‘Nora somewhat
‘Nora somewhat undergoes a transition from an imperfect angel to a monster or madwoman’
Downs - ADH is less
ADH is less about the disagreement between husband and wife and more about woman…and her society
Johnston - Nora is a sexual creature
Nora is a sexual creature who…uses sexual power over Torvald
Johnston - There is no romanticised
There is no romanticised countryside, no restorative nature—only the stifling walls of a bourgeois apartment
Johnstone - he (Torvald) thinks
he (Torvald) thinks of himself through the eyes of others
Kibred - Helmer is as much
Helmer is as much a victim of a specialist code as his wife’
Koht - Ibsen pronounced a
‘Pronounced a death sentence on accepted social ethics’
Miller - To be an Ibsenite realist,
‘To be an Ibsenite realist, you must negotiate each situation as a unique moral challenge’
Salome - that of a charming
that of a charming child to a parent, and not of equals’
Skram - She will fight
She will fight until she has total understanding of her human worth
Teale - ‘All men in the play
‘All men in the play have a strong association with death’
Templeton - This absence
This absence (of natures looming presence) underscores the play’s central tension: the home as both sanctuary and prison.”
Urban - Nora’s “religion of Torvald”
Nora’s “religion of Torvald” is based on her expectation that Torvald will exhibit the Christlike office of bearing Nora’s sins
Wollstonecraft - women are brought
women are brought up to be “pleasing at the expense of every solid virtue”
