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Significance points in A Dolls House - Coggle Diagram
Significance points in A Dolls House
contrasted worlds- house vs society- one house of many other women are being controlled in society
The use of the type of house and layout for the plays action
Title of the play , middle class home
front room of the helmers home, doors/barriers which |Nora is resticted from going in too, claustrophobic atmosphere
The home and marriage as dystopia
How women are presented to show sacrifice eh Nora, mrs lydne, Anne Marie
How this is a naturalist prose drama from 1875 (Victorian)
The heavy irony in which Helmer lectures Nora secret and lies corrupt the happy atmosphere of the home - criticising his own wife
How the text is clearly feminist because of the focus onn married mothersand the use of a doll to represent this . The debate in act three with "sacred duties"- and the role of the mother to sacrifice her own needs when marrying
Noras terenella dress sybol of repression. her hair coming downher shoulders as breaking free from rigid control- rules of dance and rules of the marriage - freedom
Helmers zoomorphisms to show patriachal control
Krogstad s an antagonist and poser of the question should the amoral be reformed?
ironic - committed fraud in the past- he has children to feed and decline back up the respectability ladder but Hemler and dr rank stands in the way and not give them a second chance who breaks the law
Helmers career of a symbolof masculine respectability
Helmer represented as the most powerful elite within the domestic sphere. He is not a king or leader, but a husband
Nora's democratic decision to seek independence and self-governance.
Dr Rank as a representative victim of parental rechlessness and figure of morality
Setting the play at Christmas to reinforce to the setting of togetherness- festive but yet Nora leaves the family (chrotmas tree dress up to look better)
The ambiguity of Nora's anagnorsis - is she right or not?
The societal restrictions- converture, financial control forcing Nora to break the law to be a good wife