Ibsen/Rossetti Critic Quotes
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(R) Rossetti - “I feel…”
“I feel at home among anxieties and depression.”
(R) Sharp- “She is the…”
“She is the finest woman-poet since Mrs. Browning”
(R) Kaplan- “She accepted…”
“She accepted the burden of womanhood”
(R) Marsh - “Complex…”
“Complex and contradictory personality.”
(R) Thomas - “Unpredictable…”
“Unpredictable and sometimes daring”
![<p><strong>(R)</strong> <strong><em>Burlison </em></strong>- "[shows a] profound…</p>](https://knowt-user-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/5bd70d2c-67c4-496e-85f2-f0034863a8c9.png)
(R) Burlison - "[shows a] profound…
“a profound resistance to patriarchal views and sexual double standards”
(R) Gill - “a dark…”
“a dark assessment of the female lot”
(R) Rosenblum - “A woman…”
“A woman inevitably experiences herself as object and other”
(R) Morden - “A consummate…”
“A consummate technician.” (extremely skilled)
(R) West - “There is much more…”
“There is much more to Rossetti’s poetry than the artless outpourings of a lovelorn heart or the distress cries of a lonely woman.” … “She uses deflection, denial and constraint as the very things which give her power to speak.”
(R) Woolf - “starved…”
“Starved herself of love, which meant also life.”
(R) Woolf - “A God…”
“A God who decreed that all pleasures of the world were hateful to him […] Everything in Christina’s life radiated from that knot of agony and intensity at the center.”
(R) West - "women poets had to tread…”
"women poets had to tread a careful path in order to depict female sexuality and desire”
(R) Morden - “Goblin Market…”
“Goblin Market is a literary banquet.”
(R) Morden - “Rossetti…”
“Rossetti cannot be characterised as languid and depressed.”
(R) Wilson - “Writing…”
“Writing as a creature of her time.”
(R) Wallner - “express the…”
“express the pain of love and nothing else”
(R) Bocher - “An emotional…”
“An emotional love not a sexualised love”
(R) Wilson - “Are…”
“Are speaking between thresholds.”
(R) Wilson - “The poet…”
“The poet of the failure of language.”
(R) Flowers - “Explores…”
“Explores the Victorian Cult of Love.”
(I) Ibsen - “My task…”
“My task has been to portray human beings.”
(I) Ibsen - “A…”
“A tragedy of modern times.”
(I) Ibsen - “It is…”
“It is an exclusively male society, with laws made by men […] who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint.”
(I) Ledger - “Linde…”
“Linde acts as a catalyst for Nora’s rebellion.”
(I) Ledger - “A critical…”
“A critical scrutiny of the lives and values of the bourgeois class.”
(I) Ledger - “The…”
“The role-playing stops here.” [Nora removes her costume]
(I) Worral - “Torvald’s…”
“Torvald’s subservience to petty social values which are more important to him than his feelings towards his wife.”
![<p><strong>(I) <em>Worral </em></strong>- “[The stove]…”</p>](https://knowt-user-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/f2ce34f3-91be-4fa4-bfa9-307cc79160f7.jpg)
(I) Worral - “[The stove]…”
“[The stove represents] the security she so urgently craves.”
(I) Lee - “Nora…”
“Nora herself performs the miracle that sets her free.”
(I) Lee - “Dr Rank…”
“Dr Rank’s syphilis acts as a brutal and physical reminder of the consequences of sin.”
![<p><strong>(I) <em>McNamara </em></strong>- “[ADH] demonstrates…”</p>](https://knowt-user-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/d2d0a532-186c-42f7-8830-d3dc7dec890d.jpg)
(I) McNamara - “[ADH] demonstrates…”
“[ADH] demonstrates the perils resulting from such self-deception.”
(I) Unwin - “Krogstad…”
“Krogstad is a mere pawn of the plot.”
(I) Long - “Nora is…”
“Nora is a monster and an unnatural woman.”
(I) Meyers - “Explores…”
“Explores romantic love as an illusion.”
(I) Shaw - “Nora is…”
“Nora is shut out of the serious business of the world.”
(I) Shaw - “The ideal…”
“The ideal wife is one who does everything her ideal husband likes and nothing else.”
(I) Wright - “Marriage…”
“Marriage is the facade of domestic bliss.”
(I) Johnston - “Torvald’s…”
“Torvald’s moral code is entirely derived from society’s expectations.”
(I) Thomas - “Torvald is…”
“Torvald is as much a victim as Nora is.”
(I) Teale - “All the men…”
“All the men in the play have a strong association with death, beneath a male facade of power lies a fragility, concern for collapse.”
(I) Woods - “Ibsen…”
“Ibsen criticises society rather than individuals.”
(I) Templeton - “The every…”
“The everywoman’s struggle with the everyman.”
![<p><strong>(I) <em>Templeton </em></strong>- “[Nora is]”</p>](https://knowt-user-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/48ecbeb0-76ca-4860-b060-fe9afc89d491.png)
(I) Templeton - “[Nora is]”
“The demon in the house.” [Angel in the house - Patmore 1854]
(I) Duncan - “A…”
“A social problem play.”
(I) Duncan - “Nora puts…”
“Nora puts love over legality.”
(I) Meyers - “shows…”
“shows romantic love to be an illusion”
