A Doll's House AO5 Quotes

• Nora puts 'love before legality'


  Sophie Duncan (Nora)
• The ending of the play is not...particularly tragic'


  George Bernard Shaw
• Torvald...is as much a victim as Nora'


  David Thomas (Torvald)
• Mrs Linde precipitates the crisis...'


  David Thomas
• Nora 'embodies the comedy as well as the tragedy of modern life'


  Joan Templeton
• The message of the play is 'much less political than it is about human nature...'


  Shannon Cron
• Nora's actions are 'a way of reinforcing an individual's right - regardless of gender - to protect themselves'


  Shannon Cron
• Convention 'caged her within a child's toy structure'


  Kate Millett
• Nora seen as 'a monster and unnatural woman'


  Elaine N.Long
• The ending was never a success'


  Elaine N.Long
• Rank symbolises the degeneration of the family'


  Sally Ledger (Rank)
• Part of Nora desires to comply patriarchal social arrangements'


  Sally Ledger (repressed desires of Nora)
• Christine Linde acts as a catalyst for Nora's rebellion'


  Sally Ledger (Linde's role)
• Nora...finds herself fin opposition to the demands of a hostile society'


  Sally Ledger (society's reception of Nora)
• Ibsen is 'critically dissecting 'modern' life and all its problems'


  Sally Ledger (Ibsen's intention)
• The play shows a 'critical scrutiny of the lives and values of the bourgeois classes'


  Sally Ledger (what play presents)
• The play is 'a performance which constituted a watershed in the evolution of British theatre'


  Sally Ledger (how the play impacted theatre)
• The play is 'crippled...by its conformity to crude though popular standards'


  Ronald Gray (how play is presented)
• Her departure announced a great awakening in European drama as well as in women's egalitarianism'


  Ronald Gray (impact of Nora's actions)
• Nora shows no sign of having seen the kind of man Helmer is'


  Ronald Gray (Nora's ignorance)
• Helmers 'faults are too exaggerated to be fruitful'


  Ronald Gray (Torvald's faults)
• A Doll's House conquered Europe and founded a new school of dramatic art'


  Shaw (Influence of Ibsen's play)
• The play 'might be turned into a very ordinary French drama...'


  Shaw (style of drama)
• Krogstad is a mere pawn of the plot'


  Eric Bentley (Krogstad)
• Her flirtation with Rank...is another indication of the more spirited woman beneath the convention-respecting surface'


  Ronald Gray (Rank and Nora)
• no character or theme is waster, or unrelated to the total effect intended'


  Ronald Gray (use of characters)
• The play does not succumb to melodrama'


  Ronald Gray (melodrama)
• Ibsen makes 'Helmer grotesque, and reduces the tragic quality of the ending'


  Ronald Gray (Torvald presentation)
• Nora's final leave-taking ... looks too theatrical'


  Ronald Gray (Nora's action)