Constellations of characters 1. Nora - Torvald 2. Mrs. Linden – Krogstad 3. Dr. Rank.
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Constellations of characters
1. Nora - Torvald2. Mrs. Linden – Krogstad3. Dr. Rank
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1. Nora - Torvald
Torvald’s “loathing of debt” (27)
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1. Nora - Torvald
Torvald’s “loathing of debt” (27)Nora’s industry and frugality
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1. Nora - Torvald
Torvald’s “loathing of debt” (27)Nora’s industry and frugalityHer disregard for creditors
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Constellations of characters
1. Nora - Torvald2. Mrs. Linden – Krogstad
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2. Mrs. Linden - Krogstad
Krogstad’s shady dealings
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2. Mrs. Linden - Krogstad
Krogstad’s shady dealingsMrs. Linden: “His business is not the most
creditable, they say" (32).
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2. Mrs. Linden - Krogstad
Krogstad’s shady dealingsMrs. Linden: “His business is not the most
creditable, they say" (32). Dr. Rank: "a moral incurable" (33).
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2. Mrs. Linden - Krogstad
Krogstad’s shady dealingsMrs. Linden: “His business is not the most
creditable, they say" (32). Dr. Rank: "a moral incurable" (33). Krogstad: "I must try to recover my character"
(47).
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2. Mrs. Linden - Krogstad
Krogstad’s shady dealingsMrs. Linden: “His business is not the most
creditable, they say" (32). Dr. Rank: "a moral incurable" (33). Krogstad: "I must try to recover my character"
(47). Dr. Rank: “I have been auditioning my life
account—bankrupt" (80).
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2. Mrs. Linden - Krogstad
Mrs. Linden: “I must have work or I can’t bear to live. All my life, as long as I can remember, I have worked; work has been my one great joy.” (115)
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2. Mrs. Linden - Krogstad
Mrs. Linden: “I must have work”She married for money
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2. Mrs. Linden - Krogstad
Mrs. Linden: “I must have work”She married for moneyBecause her father left her nothing
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Constellations of characters
1. Nora - Torvald2. Mrs. Linden – Krogstad3. Dr. Rank
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3. Dr. Rank
Nora: "You see, he suffers from a dreadful illness. He has spinal consumption, poor fellow. They say his father was a horrible man, who kept mistresses and all sorts of things—so the son has been sickly from his childhood, you understand." (67).
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3. Dr. Rank
Nora: "You see, he suffers from a dreadful illness. He has spinal consumption, poor fellow. They say his father was a horrible man, who kept mistresses and all sorts of things—so the son has been sickly from his childhood, you understand." (67).
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Inheritance
Nora inherited traits from father, who was not “unimpeachable” (Torvald)
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Inheritance
Nora inherited from father, who was not “unimpeachable” (Torvald)
He suffered from slander
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Inheritance
Nora inherited from father, who was not “unimpeachable” (Torvald)
He suffered from slanderNora might corrupt her children
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A Doll’s House
Feminism
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A Doll’s House
Feminism and bourgeois capitalism
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A Doll’s House
Feminism and bourgeois capitalismCritique of law (wife cannot borrow without her
husband’s consent)
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A Doll’s House
Feminism and bourgeois capitalismCritique of law (wife cannot borrow without her
husband’s consent)Critique of patriarchal paternalism
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A Doll’s House
Feminism and bourgeois capitalismCritique of law (wife cannot borrow without her
husband’s consent)Critique of patriarchal paternalismCultural consequences of capitalism
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Dramatic analysis
Plot: turning points, revelations, shifts in style
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Dramatic analysis
Plot: turning points, revelations, shifts in styleStage props: Christmas tree, adorned with
money
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Dramatic analysis
Plot: turning points, revelations, shifts in styleStage props: Christmas tree, adorned with
moneyConstellations of characters
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Dramatic analysis
Plot: turning points, revelations, shifts in styleStage props: Christmas tree, adorned with
moneyConstellations of charactersLiterary text and theatrical performance
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Dramatic analysis
Plot: turning points, revelations, shifts in styleStage props: Christmas tree, adorned with
moneyConstellations of charactersLiterary text and theatrical performancePresent action and the past: analytic drama
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John Gabriel Borkman“old-fashioned, faded splendor”
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John Gabriel Borkman“old-fashioned, faded splendor”Mrs. Borkman’s easy spending
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John Gabriel Borkman“old-fashioned, faded splendor”Mrs. Borkman’s easy spendingMr. Borkman’s extravagance
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• And that he himself used to squander, too--ten times more than I did!
• ELLA RENTHEIM. [Quietly.] Well, I daresay his position forced him to do that-- to some extent at any rate.
• MRS. BORKMAN. [Scornfully.] Yes, it was always the same story--we were to "cut a figure." And he did "cut a figure" to some purpose! He used to drive about with a four-in-hand as if he were a king. And he had people bowing and scraping to him just as to a king. [With a laugh.] And they always called him by his Christian names--all the country over--as if he had been the king himself. "John Gabriel," "John Gabriel," "John Gabriel." Every one knew what a great man "John Gabriel" was!
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• And that he himself used to squander, too--ten times more than I did!
• ELLA RENTHEIM. [Quietly.] Well, I daresay his position forced him to do that-- to some extent at any rate.
• MRS. BORKMAN. [Scornfully.] Yes, it was always the same story--we were to "cut a figure." And he did "cut a figure" to some purpose! He used to drive about with a four-in-hand as if he were a king. And he had people bowing and scraping to him just as to a king. [With a laugh.] And they always called him by his Christian names--all the country over--as if he had been the king himself. "John Gabriel," "John Gabriel," "John Gabriel." Every one knew what a great man "John Gabriel" was!
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Character constellation
Borkman defrauded:- Clerk
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Character constellation
Borkman defrauded:- Clerk- But not Ella Borkman, who bought estate at
auction and who own everything:
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Character constellation
Borkman defrauded:- Clerk- But not Ella Borkman, who bought estate at auction
and who own everything: “Very well, Ella; the house is yours----ELLA RENTHEIM. Oh, nonsense----MRS. BORKMAN. Everything is yours. The chair I am
sitting in is yours. The bed I lie and toss in at night belongs to you. The food we eat comes to us from you.”
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Character constellation
Borkman defrauded:- Clerk- But not Ella Borkman, who bought estate at auction
and who now owns everything: “Very well, Ella; the house is yours----ELLA RENTHEIM. Oh, nonsense----MRS. BORKMAN. Everything is yours. The chair I am
sitting in is yours. The bed I lie and toss in at night belongs to you. The food we eat comes to us from you.”
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Stage props: chair
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Stage props: what else does she own?- Piano sent upstairs
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Ella: “I think I too have a certain claim upon Erhart. Do you think I haven't?
MRS. BORKMAN. [Glancing round the room.] No doubt--after all the money you have spent upon him.
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Ella: “I think I too have a certain claim upon Erhart. Do you think I haven't?
MRS. BORKMAN. [Glancing round the room.] No doubt--after all the money you have spent upon him.
ELLA RENTHEIM. Oh, not on that account, Gunhild. But because I love him.
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Character constellation
Borkman defrauded:- Clerk- But not Ella Borkman, who bought estate at auction
and who own everything: “Very well, Ella; the house is yours----ELLA RENTHEIM. Oh, nonsense----MRS. BORKMAN. Everything is yours. The chair I am
sitting in is yours. The bed I lie and toss in at night belongs to you. The food we eat comes to us from you.”
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Character constellation
Borkman defrauded:- Clerk• But not Ella Borkman, who bought estate at auction
and who own everything: “Very well, Ella; the house is yours----ELLA RENTHEIM. Oh, nonsense----MRS. BORKMAN. Everything is yours. The chair I am
sitting in is yours. The bed I lie and toss in at night belongs to you. The food we eat comes to us from you.”
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Mrs. Borkman: “They were only money losses, nothing more.”
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Ella: “you bartered me! Traded your love to another man! Sold my love for the chairmanship of a bank.” (Act II)
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Ella: “you bartered me! Traded your love to another man! Sold my love for the chairmanship of a bank.” (Act II)
Ella: “The thing you held most precious in the world, you were willing to dispose of at a profit.”
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Ella: “you bartered me! Traded your love to another man! Sold my love for the chairmanship of a bank.” (Act II)
Ella: “The thing you held most precious in the world, you were willing to dispose of at a profit.”
Ella: Why, yes, Borkman—when we look at it closely, perhaps it is I who have betrayed you, and stand in your debt.”
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Ella: “you bartered me! Traded your love to another man! Sold my love for the chairmanship of a bank.” (Act II)
Ella: “The thing you held most precious in the world, you were willing to dispose of at a profit.”
Ella: Why, yes, Borkman—when we look at it closely, perhaps it is I who have betrayed you, and stand in your debt.”
Ella buys Ekhart’s name: “All debts are paid between us, now.”
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Act II
Indoor drama. Drama is always initiated by arrival of new character, often unexpected.
Act I: Downstairs room. Mrs. Borkman (Ella intrudes)
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Act II
Indoor drama. Drama is always initiated by arrival of new character, often unexpected.
Act I: Downstairs room. Mrs. Borkman (Ella intrudes)
Act II: Downstairs room. Mr. Borkman (Ella intrudes)
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Act II
Indoor drama. Drama is always initiated by arrival of new character, often unexpected.
Act I: Downstairs room. Mrs. Borkman (Ella intrudes)
Act II: Downstairs room. Mr. Borkman (Ella intrudes)
Act III: Borkman goes downstairs (confrontation)
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Act II
Indoor drama. Drama is always initiated by arrival of new character, often unexpected.
Act I: Downstairs room. Mrs. Borkman (Ella intrudes)
Act II: Downstairs room. Mr. Borkman (Ella intrudes)
Act III: Borkman goes downstairs (confrontation)Act IV. Borkman leaves house, dies.
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Borkman’s room
His “cage”?Act III: “I have skulked up there and wasted eight
precious years of my life! The very day I was set free, I should have gone forth into the world--out into the steel-hard, dreamless world of reality!”
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Borkman’s room
“When the hour of my restoration strikes--when they see that they cannot get on without me--when they come to me, here in the gallery, and crawl to my feet, and beseech me to take the reins of the bank again----! The new bank, that they have founded and can't carry on---- [Placing himself beside the writing-table in the same attitude as before, and striking his breast.] Here I shall stand, and receive them!”
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Borkman” “But they will come! They will come sure enough! You shall see! I expect them any day, any moment. And you see, I hold myself in readiness to receive them.”
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Borkman’s roomBORKMAN. [Vehemently.] Yes, but think of me, who
could have created millions! All the mines I should have controlled! New veins innumerable! And the water-falls! And the quarries! And the trade routes, and the steamship-lines all the wide world over! I would have organised it all--I alone!
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Borkman’s roomBORKMAN. [Vehemently.] Yes, but think of me, who
could have created millions! All the mines I should have controlled! New veins innumerable! And the water-falls! And the quarries! And the trade routes, and the steamship-lines all the wide world over! I would have organised it all--I alone!
BORKMAN. All the securities I had dealt with so daringly should have been in their places again as before. Vast companies were within a hair's-breadth of being floated. Not a soul should have lost a half-penny.
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Borkman’s roomCharacter constellation: Borkman – Vilhelm
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Borkman’s roomCharacter constellation: Borkman – VilhelmBorkman: “Oh spare me your poet’s twaddle”
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Borkman’s roomCharacter constellation: Borkman – VilhelmBorkman: “Oh spare me your poet’s twaddle”
Vilhelm: “But he climbed.”Borkman: “And I sank.”Vilhelm: “Yes, what a tragedy”—Borkman: “Yes. When I think about it, it seems almost
as tragic as your play.”
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Borkman’s roomCharacter constellation: Borkman – VilhelmBorkman: “Oh spare me your poet’s twaddle”
Vilhelm: “But he climbed.”Borkman: “And I sank.”Vilhelm: “Yes, what a tragedy”—Borkman: “Yes. When I think about it, it seems almost
as tragic as your play.”
B: “But if you look at it another way, it is really a kind of comedy.”
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Borkman’s roomBORKMAN. I am a miner's son, you know. Or perhaps you did not know?FRIDA. No, Mr. Borkman.BORKMAN. A miner's son. And my father used sometimes to take me with him into the mines. The metal sings down there.FRIDA. Really? Sings?BORKMAN. [Nodding.] When it is loosened. The hammer-strokes that loosen it are the midnight bell clanging to set it free; and that is why the metal sings--in its own way--for gladness.FRIDA. Why does it do that, Mr. Borkman?BORKMAN. It wants to come up into the light of day and serve mankind.
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Borkman’s roomBORKMAN. I am a miner's son, you know. Or perhaps you did not know?FRIDA. No, Mr. Borkman.BORKMAN. A miner's son. And my father used sometimes to take me with him into the mines. The metal sings down there.FRIDA. Really? Sings?BORKMAN. [Nodding.] When it is loosened. The hammer-strokes that loosen it are the midnight bell clanging to set it free; and that is why the metal sings--in its own way--for gladness.FRIDA. Why does it do that, Mr. Borkman?BORKMAN. It wants to come up into the light of day and serve mankind.
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Borkman’s roomB: “The spirits that slumber in the mines.”
B: “[Listens] Listen. Down there by the river the factories hum. My factories. Listen how they hum. The night shifts are working. They work both night and day. Listen, listen! The wheels whirl and the pistons thud, round and round, in and out. Can’t you hear them, Ella?”
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Borkman’s roomBORKMAN. [Vehemently.] Yes, but think of me, who
could have created millions! All the mines I should have controlled! New veins innumerable! And the water-falls! And the quarries! And the trade routes, and the steamship-lines all the wide world over! I would have organised it all--I alone!
BORKMAN. All the securities I had dealt with so daringly should have been in their places again as before. Vast companies were within a hair's-breadth of being floated. Not a soul should have lost a half-penny.
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Borkman’s roomBORKMAN. “as I walked there alone, wrestling with all
the great projects I intended to launch, I felt—almost like an aeronaut. Walking the sleepless nights—filling, as it were, some giant balloon in which I was about to sail across an uncharted and perilous ocean.”
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Borkman’s roomBORKMAN. “as I walked there alone, wrestling with all
the great projects I intended to launch, I felt—almost like an aeronaut. Walking the sleepless nights—filling, as it were, some giant balloon in which I was about to sail across an uncharted and perilous ocean.”
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The Sublime