A Doll's House Feminism Essay

In the modern day, feminism is an ever progressing movement for the equality of men and women. However, this is a result of centuries of work and progress made by many important figures, especially writers. Through the literary movement of feminism, the rights and social equality of women have improved considerably. Feminist writers support the premise that women and men are equal as human beings in their literary works. An example of a piece of feminist literature is A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. Its story outlines the economic and social inequality between men and women in the 19th century. Medea by Euripides is also incorrectly regarded by many as one of these literary works. A Doll’s House would be considered this type of literary work …show more content…
Nora did not care about this, she was in a toxic situation, she had to disaffiliate herself from Torvald. Torvald’s character really did show what was wrong with society back then. He saw her more as a child, a lower being, in which he had to care for. Nora had said, "Surely you can understand that being with Torvald is a little like being with papa."(Ibsen, Act 2 Line 217), meaning that he was just as controlling as a father, which is a bit weird to think about today. He also only saw her as an object for his pleasure, something that is very taboo today, but back then it was perfectly normal when it should not have been. However, Torvald could not help this; he did not control how he was raised, and he was raised to think of women in that degree of …show more content…
Medea presents the main character, Medea, as an insane and evil person. It is said by people who support Medea being a feminist work of literature that the reason it should be considered as such is the fact that it conveys that women could be as cruel and as evil as men. How, exactly, is this meant to be feminist? This is painting the woman as the cruel and unusual kind of person that would go as far to murder a puppy if it didn’t lick her palm after petting it. That is not the purpose or message that the movement of feminism wishes to convey. Feminism wants social equality and justice for women, not superiority to men. It is not to make women something that men should fear, or that they are better than men and therefore should have special privileges. Men are not inherently evil creatures, that is also a negative connotation towards men, something that feminists do not support either. In The Doll’s House, Nora did not think any lesser of Torvald. She didn’t think he was evil, wrong, or cruel. She understood that what he was doing was something that he could not control since he was indoctrinated as a child with those