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Title: 'A Doll's House' - Critics Flashcards
Description: Complete, comprehensive ready-made flashcards for Component 1 (Drama and Poetry pre-1900) OCR A Level English Literature, but could alternatively be useful for any course where you study Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'. All of the critics you need to gain maximum marks for AO5 (different interpretations), organised by theme. Themes covered are: Men & Patriarchal Society, Love & Sex, Morality & Victorian Values, Women, Power, Secrecy & Deceit, Self-Liberation & Rebellion, and Ibsen as a Writer. Very easy to assemble; simply print, fold and prit stick!
Description: Complete, comprehensive ready-made flashcards for Component 1 (Drama and Poetry pre-1900) OCR A Level English Literature, but could alternatively be useful for any course where you study Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'. All of the critics you need to gain maximum marks for AO5 (different interpretations), organised by theme. Themes covered are: Men & Patriarchal Society, Love & Sex, Morality & Victorian Values, Women, Power, Secrecy & Deceit, Self-Liberation & Rebellion, and Ibsen as a Writer. Very easy to assemble; simply print, fold and prit stick!
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“It would be a miracle if (Helmer) could ever live again
with so unnatural a creature” - Scott (19th century)
“Beneath (Torvald's) facade of male power lies a
fragility, a sense of crisis or collapse” - Teale
“play's most radical aspect is that it presents a
woman's dilemma as a human dilemma relevant to
both sexes” - Rustin
“women are the creatures of an organised tyranny of
men” - Eleanor Marx
“Torvald's security depends upon feeling superior” Worrall
“it is society, its institutions and authorities which
speak through (Torvald)” - Hemmer
“Torvald's love for Nora is depicted as intensely
possessive” - McNamara
“(Dr Rank is) deeply and unselfishly in love
with her” - Ledger
“(Torvald’s) love is only a form of possessing
her and exploiting her completely” - Rufus
“Nora is a sexual creature who radiates (and
uses) sexual power” - Johnston
“Ibsen accuses the institution of marriage of
crimes against humanity” - Blystone
Men & Patriarchal Society
‘A Doll’s House’ critics
Love & Sex
‘A Doll’s House’ critics
“(any real wife in Nora's situation would have)
throw[n] herself into her husband's arms” - Brun
“Restrictive social norms, are for Ibsen, the worst
disease” - Soloski
Morality & Victorian
Values
“scrutiny of the lives and values of the bourgeois
classes” - Ledger
“marriage was revealed as being a far from divine
institution” - Strindberg
‘A Doll’s House’ critics
“A play that dissects conventional bourgeois society;
exposing its rigidity and constraints it places upon
characters and on each individual life” - Barr
“women, in refusing to be compliant, were refusing
to be women” - Templeton
“(infantilising women leads to) distorted relations” contemporary review in the ‘Spectator’
“husband
...
who slowly sacrifices her on the altar of
his egotism” - Social Demokraten (late 19th century)
“Her whole life is a construct of societal norms and the
expectations of others” - Wiseman
“(wrote in 1878 notes to 'A Doll's House') a woman
cannot be herself in contemporary society” - Ibsen
“(Nora is a) sex object” - Barr
“Mrs Linde represents the lack of options women had
at the time” - Gray
“Nora's marriage is 8 years’ prostitution” - Bradbrook
Women
‘A Doll’s House’ critics
Secrecy & Deceit
‘A Doll’s House’ critics
Power
“explore systematically
...
Therefore one
doesn't quite believe her imperious speech or her
decision” - Brandes
“Nora is deceitful and manipulative from the start” Templeton
“When Nora takes off her dress
...
like Nora, she will let the
duties that her doll life gave birth to fall dead on the
ground
...
the artificiality of the well-made woman” Ibsen
“(Ibsen describes) universal anxieties” Morahan
Title: 'A Doll's House' - Critics Flashcards
Description: Complete, comprehensive ready-made flashcards for Component 1 (Drama and Poetry pre-1900) OCR A Level English Literature, but could alternatively be useful for any course where you study Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'. All of the critics you need to gain maximum marks for AO5 (different interpretations), organised by theme. Themes covered are: Men & Patriarchal Society, Love & Sex, Morality & Victorian Values, Women, Power, Secrecy & Deceit, Self-Liberation & Rebellion, and Ibsen as a Writer. Very easy to assemble; simply print, fold and prit stick!
Description: Complete, comprehensive ready-made flashcards for Component 1 (Drama and Poetry pre-1900) OCR A Level English Literature, but could alternatively be useful for any course where you study Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'. All of the critics you need to gain maximum marks for AO5 (different interpretations), organised by theme. Themes covered are: Men & Patriarchal Society, Love & Sex, Morality & Victorian Values, Women, Power, Secrecy & Deceit, Self-Liberation & Rebellion, and Ibsen as a Writer. Very easy to assemble; simply print, fold and prit stick!