A Doll's House Notes
What are the 4 stages of Ibsen's career?
1. Early years of failure 2. Great epic dramas 3. Sociological play and drama (when A Doll's House was created) 4. Eight great final plays
Ibsen was a failure until he was what age?
36
How many years did Ibsen's last play come after his first?
50
Other books and novels could not compare to which of Ibsen's works?
A Doll's House
What did Ibsen compare marriage to?
A stuffy little room.
Ibsen's life was _______ in marriage, dress and politics.
Conservative
How did "A Doll's House" affect Ibsen?
Made him internationally famous.
The reader must know what to understand Ibsen?
Norway
Through what did Ibsen express his ideas?
Plays
Ibsen wrote at a time of what?
Rapidly changing ideas
Who was Ibsen's wife and what was she considered?
Suzannah, "an emancipated and skilled linguist"
Before Ibsen wrote anything, he had to know what?
The character completely.
What was Ibsen's belief?
The fulfillment of a person's destiny, both male and female
Ibsen was the first dramatist to be aware of what?
The ghosts in relationships
"A Doll's House" is considered what?
The most influential pay ever written.
What did Ibsen say his task was?
To be a portrayer of human beings
True or false: Dramas were accepted as a modern literary medium due to Ibsen.
True
After people saw one of Ibsen's plays, they were forced to rethink ________ they had never seriously questioned before.
beliefs
The theatre changed from a place of undemanding ________ to a ________ for the topics of the day.
entertainment, forum
"A Doll's House" is not only about women's rights, but also about...
everyone finding out who he/she is and becoming that person
Politicians want only what type of revolution?
external
Women were judges by "______________"
masculine law
Ibsen said "I have been more of a ____ and less of a social __________"
poet, philosopher
The strengths of plays in portrayal of ____________ middle class.
realistic
In an Ibsen play, the audience sees "the ______ of truth, the reality of the ________"
revelation, characters
Ibsen was considered a "most extraordinary one man ___________ in history of the theatre"
revolution
Living on "ideas tumble about us like we have been living on scraps from the table of last century's _______________"
revolution
"What matters is the ________________"
revolution of the spirit
Women had the ________ to fulfill their destiny.
right
Meyer said "books are a challenge to beliefs _________________"
that had been accepted for centuries
Ibsen was the genius, Suzannah was what?
the character and his will
True or False: Husbands were the authority and the women had virtually no rights
true
With a pension, Ibsen left Norway and vowed never to _______________ again.
write plays
