Oppression In A Doll's House By Ibsen

To begin, systematic societal oppression is incomprehensible by those who have not been inhibited by it, and therefore those that are unsympathetic toward the oppressed become oppressors through denial and neglect. This is exemplified through the patriarchal values of society in the past, where oppression of women was commonplace and viewed as just by the oppressors, men. Ibsen, in his society, saw the unequal hierarchy that existed in marriage in late nineteenth century Norway. Ibsen, being the father of modern realism, wrote a play to resolve this issue, and this play became A Doll’s House, which features a husband, Torvald, and his wife, Nora, living in a society that mirrors Ibsen’s. Throughout the text, the audience is plainly revealed …show more content…
Men in the society would perpetrate women’s oppression, and this was because they were insensitive to its atrocious effects. They would gain power over women, and oppressors never feel as if they have any form of privilege. In these ways, men oppress women because they are insensitive to gender discrimination. In addition to discrimination of women, nonchalant and aloof veneers are adopted when an atrophic event has never had a direct impact on an individual, and which causes inaction, the vice of oppressors. In the short story “The Lottery,” a town participates in a barbaric ritual wherein the person that selects a paper marked with a black dot is stoned to death. Most residents of the village have not undergone the sorrow of having a loved one stoned to death, and therefore cannot fathom the grief. Additionally, the horrid outcome of death has obviously never been experienced by the living. This causes the citizens to view the stoning in a dreadfully blasé fashion; the consequences of the ritual are not even contemplated as the village continues on with their daily lives, to the point of greeting “one another and [exchanging] bits of gossip as they [go] to join their husbands” (Jackson 9) merely moments before the