An essay plan formulated based on my study notes for the A-level Drama and Poetry section of the course, studying specifically Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House and Rossetti’s poems featuring analysis, context and critics surrounding the theme of the home which could potentially come up in a futur...
Home isn’t where the heart is.
1-Home is where the heart is
2- Home must be left (outside comfort zone)
3- Homecoming is above the physical realm of home
Rossetti Ibsen
1-Shut Out 2-Goblin Market 3-Up-Hill/Echo 1-Torvald 2-Nora 3- Krogstad and Linde
Context
Rossetti
Rossetti used to be so angry, she ripped up her arm with blades to vent her wrath.
She was diagnosed with a form of hysteria when she had a mental breakdown at 18 years old.
In their house growing up, as kids, there were many visitors from Italy such as: ‘exiles,
patriots, politicians, literary men’- William recorded that the children were always present no
matter the subject matter, rossetti probably heard more political talk than any other poet.
Additional stanza removed from shut out, filled with an optimistic tone: ‘at least shall i reach
home once more’
Christina declined the offer made by Dante that she would become an honorary brother.
Rossetti delighted in the tales of the gothic and was offered the opportunity to write the life of
ann Radcliffe for series called ‘Eminet women’
Tractarianism mocks the idea that people can be brought a religious understanding of the
world, merely by acquiring a knowledge of science.
Rossetti was often removed from the polluted air of london to spend time in seaside locations
such as Hastings and Folkestone.
Women were seen as morally superior to men, it was their job to create an oasis of calm and
quiet virtue.
Another poem: “At home” how a ghost is separated by death from her home and friends.
Home isn’t where the heart is. 1
, She moved from charlotte street to Camden at a young age, and then to Albany street. She
lived in london her whole life, but enjoyed outside.
Shut out- original title what happened to me
Goblin market- a peep at the goblins | dedicated to her sister
Ibsen
Exoticism- many British critics saw it as the quality of being unusual coming away from a far
away land
Breaking a butterfly reaction-
The new woman- free spirited, educated, independent, threat of conventional ideals of
Victorian womanhood.
Alternative ending 1880- Germanic production, nora doesn’t leave the house and she is
forced by helmer into the doorway of childrens bedroom.
Morality- believed to be hereditary and contagious poor morality could make your children
sick and inherit corruptness
The angel of the house response by Virginia Woolf: “killing the angel in the house was part
of the occupation of a woman writer”
Ibsen called the alternative ending of a doll’s house a ‘barbaric act of violence’
Napoleonic code, made the authority of men over their families stronger.
Separate spheres between men and women: two laws which ibsen discusses in notes for a
modern tragedy
Ibsens mother vs mother in law; one a leader of feminist movement, one a conventional angel
of the house
Ibsen born in skein but then migrated to many places such as Italy and Germany ; self
imposed exile
Kiersgaardian beliefs- that one must decide their own morals opposed to a god.
Point one: Home is where the heart is
Rossetti
The speaker of shut out is contrite about losing their ‘home’.
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