A Dolls House - Individualism
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“I need someone to be a mother to.” - Christine
* She has been an individual, not by choice but due to being left by everyone.
* She rejects the idea of individuality for herself, wanting to be grounded in a family - but is the fact that she gets to choose that for herself an act of individualism anyway?
* She rejects the idea of individuality for herself, wanting to be grounded in a family - but is the fact that she gets to choose that for herself an act of individualism anyway?
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“I would never dream of doing anything you didn’t want me to,” - Nora
* She is relenting her place as an individual to please Torvald.
* She spends most of the play trying to please everyone else except herself.
* She spends most of the play trying to please everyone else except herself.
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“Oh, Torvald, I don’t believe in miracles anymore.” - Nora
* The miracle that would have to happen is not only for Nora to become an individual, but Torvald would also have to accept her as his individual
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“I’ve been your dollwife here, just as I was papa’s dollchild.”
* Nora cannot be individual or function as her own being whilst simultaneously being someone’s property, their ‘dollwife’.
* She also knows that her only element of being an individual around Torvald was the secret she was previously keeping from him - the loan.
* She also knows that her only element of being an individual around Torvald was the secret she was previously keeping from him - the loan.
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“Oh, Torvald, I don’t really know what religion means,”
* She has never been given the chance to explore her own opinions and beliefs, so they have never been formed.
* She realises that whilst being with Torvald, she cannot be individual, she can only share his opinions or be kept in the dark by him.
* She realises that whilst being with Torvald, she cannot be individual, she can only share his opinions or be kept in the dark by him.
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“What do you call my most sacred duties?”
“Do I have to tell you? Your duties to your husband, and your children.”
“Do I have to tell you? Your duties to your husband, and your children.”
* Nora realises that she must seperate herself from all things holding her back, the role of a mother and a wife.
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Individualism vs. obligation
* Nora spends most of the play caring for others - she takes the debt out to save Torvald, she contemplates suicide to protect her children from herself (as she believes she’s a danger) and to protect Helmer’s reputation.
* When Nora is going to leave, he only reiterates Nora’s obligations to him and the children, saying “Have you thought about what people will say?”
* When Nora is going to leave, he only reiterates Nora’s obligations to him and the children, saying “Have you thought about what people will say?”
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Ibsen and individuality
* Ibsen believed in existentialism and incorperated these views whilst writing ADH, and he embraced in autonomy and individualism.
* He didn’t write ADH for women’s rights, he wrote it for human rights, he wanted people to identify with Nora, and he felt a housewife with limited rights was the best mouthpiece to show a longing for individualism
* He didn’t write ADH for women’s rights, he wrote it for human rights, he wanted people to identify with Nora, and he felt a housewife with limited rights was the best mouthpiece to show a longing for individualism