Double standards: the unspoken rules that say it’s okay for one person to act a certain way, but completely wrong for someone else. Double standards aren’t anything new. In fact, they have been around since humanity began. If women were strong, they were a threat to men. If men were strong, they were given power and highly praised. This same kind of idea is very prominent in A Doll’s House. The Norwegian play set in the 18th century focuses very heavily on the idea of gender roles, and the different ways people are treated for doing the exact same things. Henrik Ibsen wrote this play to point out this injustice of the double standards between men and women during this time, and between women who were and weren’t married. There are only two
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BADASS LINDE. (this is where i stop caring on this writing just an fyi). Both of them are unmarried, both are at the bottom of the “food chain” in the norwegian world, and they both are hard working individuals that are being held back by society’s prejudices and judgements. For Krogstad, being unmarried isn’t a terribly bad thing, it’s just mildly inconvenient, He doesn’t have anyone to raise his kids or clean his house, but he does have a maid, which solves that problem. But for Linde, it is much harder. Although both of them have a hard time getting a job (one for committing a crime and one for being a woman), Linde has to defy gender norms and fight her way through a man’s world. Also, hard work is naturally expected out of Krogstad as a man, but no so much of Ms. Linde. Yet, she still has to work just as hard (if not harder) to make sure that she keeps her job. All in all, double standards are heavily prevalent throughout A Doll’s House. Henrik was such a cool guy that he was able to look at the world around him and go “well there buckaroo some of this stuff isn’t right, Imma write a play about DOUBLE STANDARDS”. But he did, and I love him. It’s 10pm and I’m dying please give me a 100 please and thanks. The way he wrote about double standards in his play shows a lot about the time period and is still a smack in the face (even today) about what we expect of people we don’t know anything
BADASS LINDE. (this is where i stop caring on this writing just an fyi). Both of them are unmarried, both are at the bottom of the “food chain” in the norwegian world, and they both are hard working individuals that are being held back by society’s prejudices and judgements. For Krogstad, being unmarried isn’t a terribly bad thing, it’s just mildly inconvenient, He doesn’t have anyone to raise his kids or clean his house, but he does have a maid, which solves that problem. But for Linde, it is much harder. Although both of them have a hard time getting a job (one for committing a crime and one for being a woman), Linde has to defy gender norms and fight her way through a man’s world. Also, hard work is naturally expected out of Krogstad as a man, but no so much of Ms. Linde. Yet, she still has to work just as hard (if not harder) to make sure that she keeps her job. All in all, double standards are heavily prevalent throughout A Doll’s House. Henrik was such a cool guy that he was able to look at the world around him and go “well there buckaroo some of this stuff isn’t right, Imma write a play about DOUBLE STANDARDS”. But he did, and I love him. It’s 10pm and I’m dying please give me a 100 please and thanks. The way he wrote about double standards in his play shows a lot about the time period and is still a smack in the face (even today) about what we expect of people we don’t know anything