Ibsen critics

Dickson

the play was fervently contemporary and unashamedly political

Brun

any normal wife would throw herself into her husband's arms

Alisa Soloman - women

To be a woman is to be expected to play a series of roles, the devoted mother, the helpless heroine who needs to be rescued or the seductive charmer

Alisa Soloman - play

Ibsen reveals the artificiality of the well-made play and the artificiality of the well made- woman

Simon Avery

the most famous door slam in history

Wiseman (Nora)

Nora's whole life is a construct of societal norms and expectations of others

Uddin (Nora)

Nora is Ibsen's mouthpiece, demonstrating an individual's liberation from the shackles of society

Worrall (Torvald)

Torvald's subservience to petty social values were more important to him than his feelings for his wife

Johnston (Torvald)

Torvald's moral code is entirely derived from social expectations

Smallwood

everyone in Ibsen's play suffers under the binding ties of patriarchy

Jesse Green (plot)

ingenious plot demonstrates that marriage is not the only cage

Worrall - the forgery

the one genuine act of love in the whole play

Dinah Birch

there is a sense of hope an the end of ‘A Doll’s House’

Brian Johnson on the home

an unbearable prison of inauthenticity

Ibsen - “A woman cannot be herself in

a contemporary society, it is an exclusively male society with laws drafted by men