During the duration of our class we surveyed many different works and how it related to each time period. By doing so, one could see that women were under constant oppression as it related to their role in society, and how they were viewed. This constant oppression resulted in authors both men and women, expressing their thoughts of the issue of a women role in society and to challenge them. By looking at a “A Doll’s House”, “Fantomina”, and “The Garden Party”, one will see how women were viewed and what their role in society was.
Although these works were written during different time periods, they still challenge a women’s role or discuss the role of women as it relates to society. In “Fantomina”, the protagonist goes on multiple sexual …show more content…
The protagonist is with her aunt and doesn’t have to answer to anyone and has the ability to disguise herself and experience what it is like to have freedom. In the end, the protagonist is the one who suffers the most, she becomes pregnant and is sent off to a monastery by her mother who reiterates authority and the proper way a woman should behave. However, Beauplasir gets away with what he has done, and is able to presume his life as he wishes. Which goes to show that men are the one who are above approach, and can escape responsibility, but the women cannot. The same can be said about Nora in the play, “A Doll’s House”, Nora acts as the perfect wife and mother. She is doing exactly what society would expect her to do, which is to have children and raise them …show more content…
Despite her good intentions, her husband become upset with her and accused her of being ill witted like her father. Nora, on the other hand begin to come to realization that she wasn’t happy and that she didn’t love her husband. In this play, a women’s role as the caretaker was challenged, due to the fact that Nora neglected her own wants and dreams for the sake of her family. While paying off the debt, Nora talks about how making money made her feel like a man, “Nora: Well, and besides that, I made money in other ways. Last winter I was so lucky I got a heap of copying to do. I shut myself up every evening and wrote far on into the night. Oh, sometimes I was so tired, so tired. And yet it was splendid to work in that way and earn money. I almost felt as if I was a man” (Ibsen 22). As previously stated women are viewed as caretakers not providers, however this play challenges this by, Nora working and then at the end of the play leaving her kids and husband behind to live according to her own agenda. This however offended most people because she leaves her kids behind and husband. The fact is, even if she divorced her husband she wouldn’t get anything which includes relinquishing her kids. All the land, money, and children would go to the
Although these works were written during different time periods, they still challenge a women’s role or discuss the role of women as it relates to society. In “Fantomina”, the protagonist goes on multiple sexual …show more content…
The protagonist is with her aunt and doesn’t have to answer to anyone and has the ability to disguise herself and experience what it is like to have freedom. In the end, the protagonist is the one who suffers the most, she becomes pregnant and is sent off to a monastery by her mother who reiterates authority and the proper way a woman should behave. However, Beauplasir gets away with what he has done, and is able to presume his life as he wishes. Which goes to show that men are the one who are above approach, and can escape responsibility, but the women cannot. The same can be said about Nora in the play, “A Doll’s House”, Nora acts as the perfect wife and mother. She is doing exactly what society would expect her to do, which is to have children and raise them …show more content…
Despite her good intentions, her husband become upset with her and accused her of being ill witted like her father. Nora, on the other hand begin to come to realization that she wasn’t happy and that she didn’t love her husband. In this play, a women’s role as the caretaker was challenged, due to the fact that Nora neglected her own wants and dreams for the sake of her family. While paying off the debt, Nora talks about how making money made her feel like a man, “Nora: Well, and besides that, I made money in other ways. Last winter I was so lucky I got a heap of copying to do. I shut myself up every evening and wrote far on into the night. Oh, sometimes I was so tired, so tired. And yet it was splendid to work in that way and earn money. I almost felt as if I was a man” (Ibsen 22). As previously stated women are viewed as caretakers not providers, however this play challenges this by, Nora working and then at the end of the play leaving her kids and husband behind to live according to her own agenda. This however offended most people because she leaves her kids behind and husband. The fact is, even if she divorced her husband she wouldn’t get anything which includes relinquishing her kids. All the land, money, and children would go to the