AO5 Rossetti\Ibsen

Avery (women saying no, Rossetti)

Rossetti’s poetry asserts a woman’s right to saу ‘no‘.

Reid (human love is… Rossetti)

human love is sacrificed for a desired relationship with God.

Ruskin (common ear, Rossetti)

Rossetti was violating the common ear.

Bowra (idea of love turned… Rossetti)

"The idea of love turned inexorably to the idea of death".

‘Angel in the House’ (man must be)

"Man must be pleased; but him to please is a woman's pleasure."

Archer (ADH, byword for masculine.. )

(Helmer is) a byword for masculine stupidity,
Nora is not really childish still less is she neurotic

Simon Avery - purpose of Rossetti's poems

"Rossetti's poems encourage women to claim independence and agency."

Escobar (fallen woman)

“if a woman fell she fell utterly”

Bocher (Rossetti, religious influence)

religious view affect everything she wrote, regardless of topic.

Ibsen, gender

'I write to move the barriers forward'

Henry Hitchings, gender

'The story of a woman who wakes up to reality'

Ibsen, morality

'Weighed down and confused by her trust in authority, she loses faith in her own morality'

Nick Worral, relationships, religion (ADH)

'Her husband has embodied her religion'

Stephanie Forward, desire and tarantella

'The tarantella exposes Nora's sexual self'

Mon a Caird, 1888 “Marriage”

“the economical independence of woman is the first condition of a free marriage”

F. Peterson, professor of theology - about a first performance of ADH

“society needs divine ideality…to survive” (criticising Ibsen’s realism and naturalism, as well as the choice to stem away from the melodramatic genre, dominating Victorian theatres) + earlier influence of Romanticism

Ibsen about difference in mentality of men and women, “Notes for a Modern Tragedy” (1879)

“there are two kinds of moral laws, of conscience, one for men and one quite different for women”.

H. Settfield

“the unwomanly women”