Ibsen critical quotes

• Hagemann: 'Ibsen's society regarded 'wives as bondservants of their husbands.''
• M. V. Brun: ''In the first and second acts she gave us such a lovely, natural and beautiful picture of the young, inexperienced, naive and joyful wife and mother'
• Templeton: ''an irrational and frivolous narcissist.''
• Valency (1963): ''...the hysterical personality...not particularly feminine''
• Templeton (1989): ''Ibsen uses Torvald's famous pet names...to underscore her inability to understand ethical issues faced by human beings.''
• Strindberg (1955): ''The demon in the house''
• Templeton (1989): ''She is voicing the most basic of feminist principles: that women no less than men possess a moral and intellectual nature…''
• Ellis (1932): 'Nora represents 'the promise of a new social order.''
• Binion (1994): ''Ibsen taught Europe...to look at marriage...as an unequal partnership.''