💃 Structuralist Criticism - "A Doll's House"

A Doll’s house.

This play, written by Henrik Ibsen shows us how women’s life have change. During many years ago, women were tied hands. They couldn’t have free expression and neither take time for them. I talk about “they” because in this time women were different. Now, we have free expression, we decide what we want for our life, men do not handle us as they want, and there are many others things that women are allowed to do. Nevertheless, let’s start since the play "A Doll’s House". Nora was always worried about her children and husband, and much more when she knew her husband was sick. She decided to take care of him in another better place for his health improvement, compromising her status as a wife and her reputation to society. However, at the end, Torvald was very ungrateful with her. Well, I agree that Nora did badly in the sense of lying to him, and do not tell him the truth where the money came from, and taking the risk to do something that in that time was not permitted to women. In the play, Henrik writes how women were since past times. Nora represents all those women that were at home, taking care their family, without social life, being submissive, more than the normal. Nowadays, the situation for women has change, now the opportunities of the women and men are equal.

In addition, all women want to be happy and do what make them feel better. Nora is not an exception to want her happiness. At the end, she took the most difficult decision of her life and decided to leave her husband and her children. She go alone. Where? Well, in the play does not say, but the important thing is, that she took the decision to went, she could’t endure the mistreatment and the oppression that she felt inside the house.

In that time if a woman leave her house and family, it was seen badly by the society. That action was not common, but Nora shows us how women can take their own decisions and sometimes this happens because there is not another way to take.



Now, let me your comments please.



1. Do you think nowadays women are controlled as Nora?


2. If you were a woman, what would you do in the final of the story? Would you leave home as Nora? Would you stay at home with the family? 

3. Now, put yourself in the Torvald's place. What would you do in his position? Would you get angry with Nora? Why?



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