Theme PL - Milton (1663) ADH - Ibsen (1879)
Evil 1) “Threatener” - serpent 1) Repetition of “I” in mysogynistic rant, “I am saved!”- A3,
1) “SATAN” spelt out at the start of each line in Book 9 Torvald
2) “For Death and Sin no power can separate” 1) “Wretched woman!”, “Oh you think and talk like a stupid
3) “The hellish pair” - Sin and Death, Book 10 child” and “damned to humiliation and ruin simply for the
4) “The Prince of Hell” - Satan, Book 10 weakness of a woman” - A3, Torvald
2) “crippled, morally twisted” - A1, Krogstad
3) “I have the means to make you” - Krogstad A1
Corruption 1) “into the heart of Eve his words made way” - Satan tempts Eve 1) Mrs Linde as the catalyst: “I think I have the right to be” and “Will
1) “eager appetite” - Eve you never tell him?” - A1; “Helmer must know the truth. This un-
2) “earth felt the wound” - Eve’s temptation happy secret of Nora must be revealed. They must come to a full
3) “defac’t, deflour’d, and now to death devote” - Eve understanding” - A3
4) “And knew she not eating death” 2) Society has corrupted Torvald: “she who was my joy and pride - a
hypocrite, a liar - worse, worse - a criminal! Oh, the hideousness
of it! Shame on you, shame!” - A3
3) Krogstad’s crimes: “He forged someone else’s name” - Torvald,
A1
4) Krogstad’s name = crippled
Love 1) “the human pair and joind” - introduction of Adam and Eve, marriage, 1) “Now I’m a shipwrecked man, clinging to a spar” - A3, Krogsstad
book 9 1) “A woman who has sold herself once for the sake of others won’t
1) “How can I live without thee” and “Certain my resolution is to die” do it again” - Linde
Adam’s self-self-sacrificial love for Eve 2) “I had been living here with a complete stranger” - A3, Nora
2) “Adam shall join me in bliss or woe” - Eve’s selfish ‘love’ for Adam 3) “You have never loved me” - A3, Nora
3) “Love was not in their looks, either to God or to each other” - Milton,
Book 10
4) “At his feet humble and embraced them” and “I beg and clasp thy
knees…My only strength and stay…Now at his feet submissive in dis-
tress” - Eve to Adam, Book 10
Women 1) “celestial goddess” - Eve, Book 9 1) “I need someone to be a mother to” - Mrs Linde
1) “O much deceav’d, much failing, hapless Eve” 2) Comparison of Anne Marie’s role to Dr Rank’s, and their profes-
2) “Say, woman, what is this which thou hast done?” - Jesus to Eve, sions according to their gender despite being small roles.
Book 10 1) “Oh can you neglect your most sacred duties?” - A3, Torvald
3) “Thou has hearkened to the voice of thy wife” - Jesus to Adam
4) “Though divided with that bad woman?” - Adam, Book 10
Liberation 1) “Let us divide our labours” - Eve to Adam 1) “I’ve learned to look at things practically. Life and poverty taught
1) “hee to be avenged” - Satan me that” - Mrs Linde
2) “liberal hand” - Eve tempting Adam, book 9 1) “I believe that I am first and foremost a human being” - A3, Nora
