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TMT ADH GOOD POINTS - Coggle Diagram
TMT ADH GOOD POINTS
MONEY
Januarie and Torvald treating their wives as commodities - patriarchal societies, Napoleonic code and Christian concept of marriage
increasingly mercantile societies obsessed with appearances - Merchant, Januarie appearance of wealth and piety, Torvald control of Nora's teeth and Mrs Linde knitting
separation of women from world of work in C19 - male and female 'spheres' - Torvald belief that Nora couldn't do anything to do with money
MARRIAGE
as an accessory to men's social status - concerned with appearance of wife and ability to control the relationship rather than relationship itself
Marriage debate - consideration of power of the wife in changing social climate, especially C19 with feminism movement - Nora and May = threats to the status quo, received as threats
as less sacred than it appears - hasty marriage in TMT, superficial relationship of 'strangers' in ADH
LIES AND DECEPTION
powerful men don't have to lie or deceive to get what they want, have the 'moral high ground' to criticise those who do - e.g. Merchant 'hoomly foo', Torvald 'atmosphere'
lies and deception unseen due to ignorance of those keeping up the facade of peace and happiness - 'macaroons' and Jan 'woxen blind...as is a stoon'
MORALITY
lower class characters seen as morally lower, even though all have the same base desires of sex (TMT) and money/status (ADH)
Women resort to supposedly immoral behaviour to free themselves, leaving them open to criticism by The Host and the Merchant, or Torvald and ADH contemporary critics
WOMEN
Conscious rebellion versus following one's desires - Nora initially follows rebellious streak unwittingly, then rebels against Torvald as she realises her pre-ordained place in society
May as a silent tool for most of the text - Nora as a loud yet ineffectual servant to Jan in ADH - regardlesss they are controlled
SOCIETY
Januarie and Torvald very aware of society, Nora and May not - closed off by their husbands to the outside world - even Mrs Linde has knoledge of society
as an omnipotent force - naturalism and socialism/scientific determinism of ADH and fate/religion of TMT - Jan, Torvald and Krogstad all buffeted by it
SEX
sex as an afterthought to Torvald, presuming his ability to have it - Jan always thinking of it due to prohibitive church rules - marriage begins and ends with sex is ironic
sex as a tool for women to control their husbands; Nora uses it to distract him from opening the letter and rebel against him by flirting with Rank, May uses it to rebel against Januarie by cuckolding him with Damyan