THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anagnorisis, George Bernard Shaw, Peripeteia
8 Sep 2016
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The world of the play is driven by one set of social assumptions. These are not necessarily shared by your audience. Saying you are trying to make the play relatable is not a valid argument. Lost hope and desire for her family. Realized that she needed to gure out how the world works. Became independent, gave herself the responsibility of having children and left them in the end to be independent. And so nora goes out, delivers up her wedding-ring without a sigh, quits her children without a kiss, and bangs the door! And the husband cried a miracle! a miracle" and well he may. It would be a miracle if he could ever live again with so unnatural a creature. Nora"s revolt is the end of a chapter of human history. The sel sh, silly and unnatural woman who abandons her children. Ibsen attempts to use conventions of social realism to promote the latter understanding.
