Societal Views of Women in the Victorian Era in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s

Societal Views of Wowork force in the Victorian Era in Henrik Ibsens A Dolls HouseA Dolls House, by Henrik Ibsen, creates a peephole into the lives of a family in the Victorian Era. The exercise portrays a female viewpoint in a male-dominated fraternity. The values of the confed sequencetion are described using the actions of a adult female, Nora, who rebels against the injustices inflicted upon her gender. Womens equality with men was not recognized by family in the late 1800s. Rather, a woman was considered a doll, a child, and a servant. Noras alienation reveals golf clubs assumptions and values about gender. A woman was considered by alliance to be a doll because she was expected to be subordinate to her economizes whims. Referring to a ball that she would attend, Nora asks her husband, Torvald, if he would take me in moot and decide what I shall go as and what sort of habiliments I should wear (26). Nora relies completely on how her husband would dress her, just inter changeable a doll. Just as Nora is treated as a doll, she interacts with her children as such. She doesnt raise them, she merely plays and romps with the children (13). She tells Torvald, our infrastructure has been nothing but a playroom. I find been your doll wife, just as at home I was Papas doll child and here the children have been my dolls (67). In this conversation, she shows her alienation as a woman in society by expressing discontent with her role in life. In addition to be treated like a doll, Nora is also regarded as a clear child. Victorian society looks upon womens intelligence as no ameliorate than a childs. Torvald tells her, You talk like a child. You dont understand the conditions of the world in which you live (69). Yet, he does nothing to reanimate the situation. While ... ... a heedless child (70). Because of Torvalds inability to clasp the concept of equality, Nora leaves him. Societys values are revealed by Noras declaration of equality and independenc e. Through Noras rebellious declaration and departure, she removes herself from societys standards and makes a move towards equality. She renounces societys views of a woman as a child, doll, and slave. Men in Victorian society told a woman how to act as a parent to a child, how to dress for a public event as an owner to a doll, and how to make unnecessary her thoughts to herself as a master to a slave. Henrik Ibsen portrayed qualities of the Victorian era through the alienated female gender, represented by Nora. Works CitedHenrik Ibsen, A Dolls House. Dover Thrift Edition, 1992Northam, John. Ibsen. A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall. 1965.