Dolls House Critical References

• “Nora confronted every convention and the chivalrous masculine prejudice that caged her within a child’s toy structure” Millett
• “Ibsen’s Nora is not just a women arguing for female liberation…She embodies the comedy as well as the tragedy of modern life” Templeton
• "there are thousands of such doll-homes, where the husband treats his wife as a child he amuses himself with, and so that is what the wives become... it is this young and delightful young woman's duty, her inescapable duty, to leave this gentleman, this husband, who slowly sacrifices her on the altar of his egotism, and who fails to understand her value as a human being" Peterson
• “Women are the creatures of an organised tyranny of men” Eleanor Marx (feminist socialist)
• “A perception of some illuminating truth arising of dialectical conflict” James Joyce 
• “I have never written a play to further a social purpose” Ibsen (Speech for Women’s Rights)