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6 Cards in this Set
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- Back
- 3rd side (hint)
New Norway, new language |
Landsmaal, the newly formed written version of Norwegian |
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Industrialisation |
When Ibsen was born 90% of the population worked in agriculture. By the time ADH was written, the economy was capitalist and industrialised |
Easier to move up/down social ladder, physical mobility was also more easy |
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Freud |
Freud was born 28 years after Ibsen and looked up to him. He focuses on dreams, jokes and slips of the tongue to reveal motivations |
Theatre, with exploration of subtext, linked closely to his ideas |
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Darwin |
Origin threatened theories of religion, causing many to seek their own moral separate from the Bible. References to heredity are also made in the play |
This links to Nora, rank and krogstad |
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Charles Dickens, David copperfield |
David married Dora, who is childish and immature. She does not mature and their marriage does not become one of equals. She eventually dies, allowing David to marry a sensible woman. Nora, on the other hand, leaves after recognising their flaws. |
"Only loved each other as a boy and girl, and forgotten it" |
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Rejecting idealism |
Characters were often stereotypes, the narratives full of cheap emotions. Ibsen did not like the rigidity of the narrative and preferred a conclusion that allowed the audience to draw their own conclusions. "The true end lies beyond" |
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