A Doll's House AO5

Gail Finley

Ibsen was widely credited with virtually inventing the emancipated woman

Joan Templeton

A Doll’s House is about every woman’s struggle against every man

AM Rekdal

"not concerned with feminism but with the genesis of a human being"

Schlueter

"Nora is deceitful and manipulative from the start"

Michael Myers

"In attempting to behave according to convention they developed a marriage based on illusion"

Michael Myers- love 

"Ibsen shows romantic love to be an illusion, inhibiting the free development of the individual"

Gro Hagemann

Extending economic rights to "married women was looked upon as an attack on the idea of marriage itself"

Ronald Gray

Nora's final leave-taking...looks too

theatrical'

David Thomas

'Torvald...is as much a victim as Nora'

Toril Moi

"Nora's fantasies are variations on the idealist

figure of the noble and pure woman who sacrificed all for love”