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"

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”

Fredrik Petersen (1880)

found the play ‘ugly’ and ‘distressing’

M. W. Brun (1879)

the play’s ‘screaming dissonances’ defied common sense

August Strindberg (1884)

“marriage was revealed as being a far from divine institution,

Kate Millett

“Nora confronted every convention and the chivalrous masculine prejudice that caged her within a child’s toy structure, hoping to ensure that she would remain a housepet and infant there forever.

Die Gegenwart (1879

ending was "illogical and immoral"

Bergman

The play is "really the tragedy of Helmer".