A Doll's House Critics

Gray on Rank and Nora

“Her flirtation with Rank...is another indication of the more spirited woman beneath the convention-respecting surface”

Bentley on Krogstad’s purpose

“Krogstad is a mere pawn of the plot”

Ledger on the play’s scrutiny

“critical scrutiny of the lives and values of the bourgeois classes”

Ledger on Christine

“Christine Linde acts as a catalyst for Nora's rebellion”

Ledger on Nora and the patriarchy

“Part of Nora desires to comply to patriarchal social arrangements”

Millett on Nora’s entrapment

“caged her within a child's toy structure”

Duncan on Nora’s priorities

“love before legality”

Durbach on Nora’s social death

“die as a doll in order to live the life of a woman”

Marx on Nora’s suppression

“women are the creatures of an organised tyranny of men”