A Doll House No Longer
This society in the 21st century has made great advancements in women 's roles and their rights as a human. In “A Doll House,” by Henrik Ibsen, he uses Nora to represent the overall issues women in his time had with societies expectations. During the 1800s and at times now women had a certain role and right they had to fulfill which was to get married and their husband was to take care of them they, however, were in charge of caring for the children. Now some women had no problem fulfilling this, but obviously as a human, women had different aspirations. There was such discontent with these laws and roles of women that the men expected of them. In this story Ibsen uses Torvald, the antagonist, to assess Nora’s feminine …show more content…
This was a turning point for Nora “I wouldn’t be a man if this feminine helplessness didn’t make you twice as attractive to me,”(Ibsen 107) Torvald only speaks on his own needs at the same time insulting Nora and women as a whole. He believes that Nora acted upon her feminine helplessness which was very much implemented in the 19th century and this was the way it alway was in society. The women always stayed quiet and kept doing what they could to play their role as a wife and mother and the men knew that and disregarded their personal problems. This was seen with Torvald when he disregarded Nora’s feelings when he insulted her with the nicknames he called her and being so commanding, he also never took her serious and she acknowledges this at the end when she is about to leave “We’ve been married now eight years. Doesn’t it occur to you that this is the first time we two, you and I, man and wife, have ever talked seriously together?” (Ibsen 109). Nora did not want to fulfill Torvald or society 's expectations anymore and she wanted to find herself and decides to leave to do something more for her life Torvald and the
This society in the 21st century has made great advancements in women 's roles and their rights as a human. In “A Doll House,” by Henrik Ibsen, he uses Nora to represent the overall issues women in his time had with societies expectations. During the 1800s and at times now women had a certain role and right they had to fulfill which was to get married and their husband was to take care of them they, however, were in charge of caring for the children. Now some women had no problem fulfilling this, but obviously as a human, women had different aspirations. There was such discontent with these laws and roles of women that the men expected of them. In this story Ibsen uses Torvald, the antagonist, to assess Nora’s feminine …show more content…
This was a turning point for Nora “I wouldn’t be a man if this feminine helplessness didn’t make you twice as attractive to me,”(Ibsen 107) Torvald only speaks on his own needs at the same time insulting Nora and women as a whole. He believes that Nora acted upon her feminine helplessness which was very much implemented in the 19th century and this was the way it alway was in society. The women always stayed quiet and kept doing what they could to play their role as a wife and mother and the men knew that and disregarded their personal problems. This was seen with Torvald when he disregarded Nora’s feelings when he insulted her with the nicknames he called her and being so commanding, he also never took her serious and she acknowledges this at the end when she is about to leave “We’ve been married now eight years. Doesn’t it occur to you that this is the first time we two, you and I, man and wife, have ever talked seriously together?” (Ibsen 109). Nora did not want to fulfill Torvald or society 's expectations anymore and she wanted to find herself and decides to leave to do something more for her life Torvald and the