accidental feminist

a doll’s house = glad I picked this century December 13, 2005

I need to see this thing on stage! It’s just so constantly wrought with subtext.

My favorite is this conversation between Nora and her husband’s best friend:

Nora: Oh you know very well that I always have time for you.

Rank: Thank you. I shall make use of as much as I can.

Nora: What do you mean by that? As much of it as you can?

Rank: Well, does that alarm you?

Nora: It was just such a strange way of putting it. Is anything likely to happen?

Rank: Nothing but what I have long been prepared for…

It just keeps going, and you’re just thinking “What do they each think they’re talking about?”

At any rate, Nora is so love starved that she seems to (whether subconciously or not) revel in the sexual tension she creates with her “innocent prattle”. I mean, it was even driving me crazy!

I’m not sure if I’m more mature now, but I liked this a lot better than when I read “The Awakening” in high school. I mean, perhaps Nora will find that she’s just as lost as Edna was once she leaves home, and maybe she’ll end up in the “icy black water”, the “unfathomable depths” herself, but she’s so much more self-aware than her Creole counterpart, that I have higher hopes for her in the end.