There are hundreds of millions and billions of people existing in this world who have several ideas, each varying from the other. Each individual has his or her own way of treating his problems or dealing with their day to day situations of life. Some people are polite, some are helpful while some are arrogant. While there are some who touch extremes such as sacrificing their lives in order to secure the life of others. But in this research I would throw light on that group of people who sit quietly and do respond very politely and kindly to any kind of embarrassment or disgrace that they have faced in their life. These people although may seem to be quite harmless but they may just prefer to keep their thoughts private and would not like to socialize; but when someone interferes in their life to turn it upside down, is not tolerable by them, they may use drastic measures to ensure that the source of disturbance does not try to trouble them again. This sudden use of drastic measures is uncontrolled and in this rage the individual may harm the source of disturbance or himself to an extent that is immeasurable. This quality can be seen in the women protagonists of the two novels, namely Nora in ‘A Doll’s House’ and ‘Yerma’ in Yerma. The play ‘A Doll’s House’ is a melodrama of the nineteenth century. Henrik Ibsen has portrayed Nora Helmer, the female protagonist, as the doll of the house. In the play Nora has been constantly treated as a showpiece earlier by her father and now by her husband Trovald Helmer. She has extravagant spending habits. In this play the author Henrik Ibsen explores the change in human nature when he is exposed to the social environment (Nora). He notices the capacity of them to change. Nora at the end of the play is observed to undergo that change. She tries to discover who she is and undergoes a revolutionary change. In those times the female characters where dominated by the protocols of the male dominating society. Nora challenges these conventional in the play and gives up her roles as a wife and a mother to find her true identity.

The second play is ‘Yerma’’; the title of the play itself suggests emptiness. Lorca’s play ‘Yerma’ appears to be a struggle between repression and freedom. It represents the conflict between an individual and the society. Yerma’s long desire to bear a child is the main reason for the climax of the play. Yerma’s longing is not just for a child but it is also for a supernatural search for the meaning of her life. She was opposing what she was currently facing as her desires were not only being suppressed by the society, but she was herself emotionally dependant and struggling on her husband Juan who in turn was a simpleton bearing no desires himself to fulfil Yerma’s desires.
Women Emancipation is the term used for the freedom of women from the social, religious and legal norms. It is another factor which affects the life of the women in the long run. The level of freedom from above mentioned factors that are provided to the women affect their character. Nora Helmer is the female protagonist of the play ‘A Doll’s House’ is one such character who is influenced by this factor. Nora although seeming very depended in actual is a contrast of it; she has been keeping secrets and trying to be innocent in front of her husband Trovald. This trait of Nora has been shown in the beginning of the play. This takes place when her husband Trovald asks her if she has been eating macaroons, but Nora denies the question completely, through this act it becomes easy for the readers to learn that Nora is capable of lying even at the smallest possible occasion.

Yerma the book itself is based on the struggle between the society and an individual. She has a childish behaviour of hanging on to one thing and asking for it till she claims it. Her solitude has been expressed clearly through her speech such as the one below
‘I want to drink water and there’s no glass and no water! I want to walk up the hill, and I have no feet! I want to embroider my petticoats and I cant’t find the thread!’
Yerma always kept reminding Juan how different she was from the rest of the brides, who cried when they got married and trembled before they got into bed with their husbands. She has always been demanding for a child from Juan, but Juan never wanted one and he always was ready to fulfil her materialistic wants. This behaviour of Yerma shows that she is quite concerned about the relationship between her husband and her wife. But as per Juan’s reaction, these words showed how frustrated he was with the constant taunting.
To the contrast to the above mentioned character Nora also has a secretive and clever side. She is leading a life with double role, while the initial scenes of the play Nora is considered to be a spendthrift but she never was one. All the money which the Nora asked for spending was never used for it but for repaying a debt which she had taken from Krogstad, without the knowledge of her husband Trovald. This secret debt about which she has not informed Torvald clearly expresses to the readers that she may not be as childish as she was thought to be. She took this risky undertaking under the belief that her husband will also take the same steps, for her sake, if required. However the ending of the play reveals that her thinking about Torvald was completely wrong.

In the case of Yerma, although being instructed by Juan not to leave the residential premises and not interact with anyone she leaves the house to deliver his lunch and has a conversation with the Pagan old woman. She can also be seen flirting with Victor, and the fact was highlighted when she spoke to the Pagan old woman about the feelings she underwent when she was with him. Juan always asked her to bring the child of her sisters so that they may take care of it. These lines were although enough to provide hints that there was something wrong which was stopping Juan to have a baby. In the end when Yerma realizes that she has no other option left but to go to Dolores for magical powers to conceive a child.
In the climax during the third scene when the climax is finally revealed Nora realizes her foolishness. Torvald claimed that she is not eligible to be a wife and a mother. But later when Krogstad writes to Torvald saying that he no longer want to a reason for trouble to the Helmer family, Torvald immediately forgives Nora and states that he still loves her. Although after this incident Nora realizes that she had always thought of Torvald as a husband who would support her but now that she realizes that he has no intentions to remove Nora from that situation, she curses her relationship with Torvald and believes that it was just a false show which Torvald has been putting up. She knew that she was deceived and stated that only miracle of miracles can be the reason for their reunion. Stating this she slams the door behind her leaving her husband and children to their destiny in order to realize her true self. Yerma had a similar case when she realized that her husband was incapable to conceive her and had been kept in the dark for so long. Even after that Juan wants them to live together without a child, but for Yerma this fact was unacceptable. She ends up clutching Juan’s throat and chocking him to death. Her last lines say that she was barren earlier and now she will remain barren forever, as she has killed him and with him all the hopes for the child.
From the comparison of the above to novels it has clearly been noticed that the husbands have faced extreme consequences of exploiting their wives. This fighting spirit has liberated both the female protagonists from their husbands and society leaving them alone to their solitude in order to discover themselves.