Weblinks and videos for use with 11957 – A Doll's House: Activity Pack for A Level
Specification Information
Pre-reading Activities
Task 2: Predict Further reading:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Doll%27s_House
- http://www.mnc.net/norway/Ibsen.htm
- http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henrik_ibsen.html
- http://www.notable-quotes.com/i/ibsen_henrik.html
Task 4: Victorian Women Further reading:
- http://www.victoriaspast.com/LifeofVictorianWoman/LifeofVictorianWoman.html
- http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/collins/tsw1.html
- http://victoriancontexts.pbworks.com/w/page/12407471/The%20Law%20of%20Divorce
Task 9: Men and Women and... Further reading: http://academics.triton.edu/uc/files/dollshse.html
Act 1
Tasks Further reading:
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/darwin_charles.shtml
- http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Degeneration_(Max_Nordau)_full_text
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9n%C3%A9dict_Morell
- http://hpy.sagepub.com/content/3/12/391.extract
Did you know? Guardian articles:
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/apr/03/living-alone-depression
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/30/the-rise-of-solo-living
Further reading:
- http://history1800s.about.com/od/entertainmentsport/a/christmas19thc.htm
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jan/28/divorce-rates-marriage-ons
Act 2
Context: http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/6/1/44.extract
Did you know?
Further reading:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_syphilis
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis#Secondary
- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4099/4099-h/4099-h.htm#page183
Act 3
Interactive tasks: http://www.angryalien.com/
Further reading:
Did you know? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013466/Is-Chicagos-Fairy-Castle-expensive-dolls-house-world.html
Characterisation
Who is Nora? Task 3: Laura Kieler and Ultima Thule: https://archive.org/details/lettershenrikib00laurgoog/
Character Relationships
The Women
- Task 5: As Lowly as a Wife Can be: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4099/4099-h/4099-h.htm#p. 183
- Task 6: She is Worth Far More Than Rubies: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2031&version=NIV
Attitudes and Values
Class Task 3: Glad Ur Not... Poor and Destitute: https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50139/explore_and_discover/1609/life_for_children_in_victorian_britain/2
Morality Task 2: No Disney+ for the Helmers:
- https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50168/creepy_collection/1624/creepy_collection_-_girl_who_would_not_brush_her_hair
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market
Form
Melodrama and RealismTask 4: Read Around
- http://www.online-literature.com/periods/realism.php
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodrama
- http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/spd130et/melodrama.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth-century_theatre
- http://www.victorianweb.org/genre/Realism.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_literature
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548ks