THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Clement Scott, Social Realism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Theatre & Film Studies
• Course: THTRFLM 1T03
• Professor: Peter Cockett

Document Summary

Women were also starting to voice resistance to this oppression. The world of the play is driven by one set of social assumptions. These are not necessarily shared by your audience. At the end-selfish, silly and unnatural woman who abandons her children. Ibsen uses conventions of social realism to challenge the normative treatment of women in his society and promote a sympathetic response to nora. Action motivated by material circumstances and personal histories, not by moral. The causes and motivations for nora"s exit at the end are revealed to the audience through the creation of subtext sub -textual, the implication of the action, not just the surface meanings of the words. In the final exchange, her syntax and diction change.