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Rebecca Lyons

Femininity, masculinity, misogyny and feminism

Ibsen

Coleridge
- The title of ‘A Doll’s House’ has deeply sexist
- KK – The second section of the poem moves into a
connotations; women are presented as men’s play-
more supernatural, gothic romance; the ‘deep
things, to be dressed-up and toyed with
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The description of the

where she mist remain conscience of her ‘place in
chasm invokes the imagery of romance; the place is

the home’
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’ The supernatural

be a proper man if [he] didn’t find [Nora] doubly
imagery of the figure who haunts and the demon

attractive for being so obviously helpless
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While the ‘woman’ and
than a woman’, despite her capability in supporting

‘demon lover’ give the Biblical figures a supernatural
Torvald during Torvald’s struggles
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’ – Joan
counterparts give them a familiar, quasi-historical

Templeton
balance
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entirely financially dependent on them
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Kubla sees the

the ridiculousness in suggesting women’s
damsel herself in a vision, he questions, ‘Could I
independence
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The image of

at the end of the play symbolises her ultimate
the damsel is that of immortal beauty, she is

escape from the doll’s house that she now
presented as a mystical creature, the detached

recognises to be her ‘gilded cage’
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assumed the role of an archetypal, modern women,
- KK – “the poem is not a meaningless reverie, but a

emancipated from an enforced fidelity used by a
poem so packed with meaning “ – John Beer

male dominated society to control women
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declaring that before all else she is ‘a human being’
In his description of the ‘white-flowered Jasmin, and

and her duty to herself is ‘sacred
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’ – James Joyce
the characteristics of human beings, thus

- Torvald infantilises Nora through his reference to her
establishing the notion of nature’s role in feminine

as ‘my little spendthrift’, his ‘lark’, ‘squirrel’ and
beauty
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’ The patronising tone of his affection reduces
C – The cock crowing at the wrong time is an allusion

Nora’s status to that of a child, lacking in
to disorder in the natural environment; Geraldine’s

independence and maturity
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- ‘No dramatist has ever meant so much to the
- C – Coleridge describes the naked female body as

women of the stafe as Henrik Ibsen
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traditional female role as a means of supporting her

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family; her expressed longing that ‘I want to be a
mother to someone’ echoes the notion that women
are fulfilled by living in service of others
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‘Whatever I have written has been without any
conscious thought of making propaganda
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As a man,
Torvald assumes control over his and Nora’s
children, he warns that ‘I shall not allow you to
bring up the children’ should she shatter the family’s
outward respectability

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