THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: George Bernard Shaw, Clement Scott, Henrik Ibsen
27 Oct 2017
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Henrik ibsen (1828-1906: ibsen"s realist lays considered too scandalous for public performance, performed in private" theatres, a doll house rst performed in denmark, 1879. Cultural context: patriarchal 19th century society: heterosexual marriage a scared institution. Respectable (i. e. middle class) women expected to stay at home. Cultural context: naturalism: stems from charles darwin"s the origin of the species (1859) Evolution is dependent on environment and hereditary factors: belief that natural factors (environment, hereditary etc. ) determine human behaviour, no essential nature to gender. Ibsen"s social realism: actions of characters often challenge conventional morality, puts society"s social & moral ideals into con ict with the reality of how people actually lived their lives, traits of social realism. What ideological assumptions are challenged: class superiority, the upper classes justi ed their power on the basis of moral superiority, class and morality were considered to be innate.
