A Play “A Doll’s House” written by Henrik Ibsen gives a fascinating story and an interesting ending at the end of the play. The main characters, Torvald and Nora Helmer, live a life struggling with money and family bonding. The wife, Nora Helmer, struggles to express herself as well as have a difficult time living with her husband, Torvald Helmer. Nora’s life is ruled over by her husband like a puppet or doll and it was a rightful decision for Nora to leave the family. The ultimate result can be seen at the end of the play. Inequality marriage and disbanding of marriage can be seen between the Torvald and Nora Helmer thus causing the rightful decision of leaving made by Nora. Nora’s life is trapped under Torvald’s rule. Throughout the play,
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Women’s role was to obey their husband and they are responsible for taking care of the children. Men is the head of the family where he controls everything. A Doll’s House is a great example where the wife is treated like a doll and gets fed up with her husband and leaves the family. A scholarly article “Patriarchal Subterfuge Vs Feminist Rebuttal in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House” written by Ms. V. Meenakshi, says, “women has not been defined as a subject in her own right”. (83). Nora has not been defined as a subject in her own right and Torvald chooses what is good and bad for her. The play shows that women are always inferior to men. The way the marriage of Torvald and Nora is, women doesn’t have a word in the family. Even though they are married with children, there is no real support from husband and true love between the married couple. Torvald thinks that the role of men in marriage is to lead the family and guide his wife with interfering in her life. Their marriage looks more like a father-daughter figure. Torvald always interferes with Nora’s life and make changes the way he wants. Too much interference made Nora feel that she is married to a joke. The true love between married couple disappears and she feels her husband is like a father who is nagging to her. The feeling of love fades away and Nora starts to feel that she is living with a complete stranger as she complains that …show more content…
Meenakshi states, “The reality of what her marriage is and the things she is thinking and feeling upset and confuse her. She realizes that she must be on her own for a while at least to figure out who she is, what she believes, and how she should go on with her life knowing what she knows” (Meenakshi 86). The moment the wife leaves her husband, she becomes an outcast. It is very difficult for woman to live individually since the society gave no power to women. She was supposed to act and behave in a certain way and be a wife and mother that the society constructed the norms. She couldn’t be honest and this became the trigger for Nora to find her individual self. In the play, Nora said, “In eight whole years-longer even-right from our first acquaintance, we’ve never exchanged a serious word on any serious thing” (Ibsen
Women’s role was to obey their husband and they are responsible for taking care of the children. Men is the head of the family where he controls everything. A Doll’s House is a great example where the wife is treated like a doll and gets fed up with her husband and leaves the family. A scholarly article “Patriarchal Subterfuge Vs Feminist Rebuttal in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House” written by Ms. V. Meenakshi, says, “women has not been defined as a subject in her own right”. (83). Nora has not been defined as a subject in her own right and Torvald chooses what is good and bad for her. The play shows that women are always inferior to men. The way the marriage of Torvald and Nora is, women doesn’t have a word in the family. Even though they are married with children, there is no real support from husband and true love between the married couple. Torvald thinks that the role of men in marriage is to lead the family and guide his wife with interfering in her life. Their marriage looks more like a father-daughter figure. Torvald always interferes with Nora’s life and make changes the way he wants. Too much interference made Nora feel that she is married to a joke. The true love between married couple disappears and she feels her husband is like a father who is nagging to her. The feeling of love fades away and Nora starts to feel that she is living with a complete stranger as she complains that …show more content…
Meenakshi states, “The reality of what her marriage is and the things she is thinking and feeling upset and confuse her. She realizes that she must be on her own for a while at least to figure out who she is, what she believes, and how she should go on with her life knowing what she knows” (Meenakshi 86). The moment the wife leaves her husband, she becomes an outcast. It is very difficult for woman to live individually since the society gave no power to women. She was supposed to act and behave in a certain way and be a wife and mother that the society constructed the norms. She couldn’t be honest and this became the trigger for Nora to find her individual self. In the play, Nora said, “In eight whole years-longer even-right from our first acquaintance, we’ve never exchanged a serious word on any serious thing” (Ibsen