And now, having my computer back, I can read this on a large screen and savor it. I am inordinately happy that it's available on YouTube! I will definitely watch it. I've known *of* A Doll's House but never seen a production of it.
The tenacity of the brainwashing that teaches women to be mere things of one sort or another... it's sobering and depressing--and insidious. I was talking to a middle-aged woman the other day who was reflecting on being stuck in a job where whatever decisions she took in key matters, she **had** to make someone unhappy, and that their unhappiness had been making her feel--until recently, until she started thinking about it--like a bad person... because her unexamined, unreflecting, burned-into-her upbringing implicitly stated that a woman who doesn't please isn't a good person. (The post-ellipsis part is my analysis, not hers.)
So you get intelligent people who may even be working diligently "for good," but they aren't doing it from a place of mental freedom. It sounds like what Kristine realized earlier and what Nora is reaching for by the end of the play.
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The tenacity of the brainwashing that teaches women to be mere things of one sort or another... it's sobering and depressing--and insidious. I was talking to a middle-aged woman the other day who was reflecting on being stuck in a job where whatever decisions she took in key matters, she **had** to make someone unhappy, and that their unhappiness had been making her feel--until recently, until she started thinking about it--like a bad person... because her unexamined, unreflecting, burned-into-her upbringing implicitly stated that a woman who doesn't please isn't a good person. (The post-ellipsis part is my analysis, not hers.)
So you get intelligent people who may even be working diligently "for good," but they aren't doing it from a place of mental freedom. It sounds like what Kristine realized earlier and what Nora is reaching for by the end of the play.