The # Metoo Movement In A Doll's House

The #MeToo movement started in 2006, by Tarana Burke is aimed to help survivors of sexual violence, especially young women of color from low wealth communities. The movement uses the idea of “empowerment through empathy,” and has created a community of survivors from different backgrounds and different places. Followers of the #MeToo movement would be wise to read the 150-year-old play, A Doll’s House, as even a century and a half ago, halfway around the world in Scandinavia, women were suffering sexual harassment, violence, and abuse. While the #MeToo movement brings the conversation about sexual disrespect and violence into the mainstream allowing for open conversations about the topic, A Doll’s House proves that it is nothing new.
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Helmer is sexually abusive to his wife, Nora, in many ways. He tries to force himself on her, which is still a problem that women have to face in today’s world. In A Doll’s House, Nora gets treated like a useless object used only for Mr. Helmer’s sexual enjoyment. For hundreds of years before A Doll’s House was published, women lived in bondage to men, and they were forced to stay with their husbands. On page 55, in A Doll’s House, Helmer suggests he views his wife as nothing more than personal property when he says, “You will hardly believe that I had to almost bring her away by …show more content…
I have even experience sexual harassment. The first time that it happened to me was when I was in third grade. This teacher only liked the males in our class. The teacher let the boys get away with doing anything, from not doing homework, to picking on the girls in the class. The second time I felt bad about myself for being a girl was in fifth grade. My classroom was on the top floor of the elementary. My teacher would only ask the males in the class to take something down to the bottom floor. She explained that the boys were more capable of lifting something heavy and doing labor. I have been jeered at many times. Once when I was with my boyfriend at a fair, one of his friends walked up to him and said, “The things I would do to that girl.” I remember hearing the friend saying that and instantly feeling bad about the clothes I was wearing and my body. I was wearing a t-shirt and athletic shorts, so it was nothing provocative. Many girls my age have experienced something like this, to the point where us girls do not even realize that what is being said is wrong. In conclusion, while the #MeToo movement brings the conversation about sexual disrespect and violence into the mainstream allowing for open conversations about the topic, A Doll’s House proves that it is nothing new. The subject of sexual harassment was not a subject that was talked about a lot. All of that changed, when Heather Graham came out