Women's Roles
G.D Anderson a famous feminist poet once said "Feminism isn't about making women strong. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength". Women have always been overlooked no one has really taken the chance to stop and admire all the things that they do. In A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Nora plays the role of a mother, a wife and most importantly a women these three views have all changed over the years. The audience varying responses to Nora’s actions in the play A Doll’s House, reflect the changing role of women in the past 100 years.
The first main point is how Nora and her actions as a mother are looked at over the last 100 years on the views of women. In the earlier years women were to stay home and watch after the children they were not expected to go out and help support the family. Kathryn Hughes points out “Not only was it their job to counterbalance the moral taint of the public sphere in which their husbands laboured all day, they were also preparing the next generation to carry on this way of life”.The main job of a mother was to make a good role model for the kids and to educate them while they are at home. Over the years the idea of a stay at home mom has faded away due to the …show more content…
The view of women have changed greatly from when the play was published to the present day so when the play was seen or read can greatly determine how Nora was looked at. In the 1800’s Nora would have been considered normal she did everything she was told and as a women it was her job to obey the man. In the 1900’s Nora would have been looked at as more of a woman who was looking for more trying to find her place in society to create a sense of freedom by trying to pay off the loan she got without her husband's help "Victorian Women, the Home Theatre, and the Cultural Potency of a