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Old June 5th, 2014 #11
N.B. Forrest
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Originally Posted by Alex Linder View Post
Ibsen - A Doll House - trains all to be selfish like Nora. Women in particular to reject their family and children for self-actualization. Read by almost all bourgeois AP English students I would guess. More on this later, just wanted to put it down when it popped up in my head.

Three cheers for the subconscious! I've got it working on this and (uncreated yet) epiphanies (thread), and it keeps coughing up results...
I saw a Masterpiece Theater presentation of that over 20 years ago; the narrator (Cooke or Baker, can't remember which) said that Ibsen stated that he wasn't encouraging such feminist cuntery, just documenting it.

Whatever. Encouragement has been the result, intended or not.
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