Deceit is morally ambiguous

Within Victorian society

• Nora’s place within household is allowed because of her lies,
  • Lavish tipping of porter
• Torvald thinks lies corrupt the household
• 2019 production by Theatre Conspiracy designed the set around a giant bird cage, serving the visual manifestation of Nora’s confinement.
• From the outset, the ending is caused by the deceit at the beginning. As Nora choses to leave her children,
  • 19th Century society of the time couldn’t accept the ending proved by Hedwig Neimann refused to play Nora unless the “unnatural” ending was changed.

Within Rossetti

• Maude Clare: Thomas’ deceit corrupts their marriage
  • Societally, Thomas’ position isn’t changed after his exposure Elizabeth K Helsinger - “neither Maude Clare not Nell is allowed authority”
• Thomas’ unfaithfulness towards Maude Clare

Deceit is the only way for a women to have a voice

• Nora’s justification
• Conversation with Mrs Linde about it, not Torvald who represents society
  • Krogstad confronts her actions as she is a woman

Within Winter: My secret

• Narrator’s attention is only given because of the deceiving nature of withholding of a secret

  • Ambiguous throughout weather secret will be told “No indeed, not I: / Perhaps some day, who knows?”

  Complexities of Religion: Deceit as a concept repents the serpent (devil) in the garden of eden

  Yet in her writing she advocates deceit, reflected in the toying language of Winter: My Secret.

• Nora’s “little secret”

• Truth of hirearchy revealed in reality

<aside> ⚠️ “I would never dream of doing anything you didn’t want me to” -

</aside>