Ibsen’s 1879 play, A Doll’s House, tells us the story of Nora, a woman living in the late 18th century, who gets treated like a doll by her husband Torvald. Ibsen presents the idea that women don’t have the same rights as men and are treated as inferior, which leaves readers asking, “is this still relative to today’s society?” Perspective one tells us how the role of women has changed since the late 1800’s. In the 1800s women were educated to take care of the house, children, and husband. Since the many women have been able to pursue much more of an education than women were able to in the 1800s. Today’s statistics show that more women are more likely to graduate from graduate school than men are and that women are also making up a larger
