Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Analysis Of Henrik Ibsen s A Doll s House - 1606 Words

Women are always served with the role and instruction to follow. Society has been biased for there treatment towards women. They are accepted to keep people happy and satisfied around them, no matter what the woman herself feels. She has to look happy, and her real emotions are zipped and concealed. Henrik Ibsen’s play â€Å"A Doll’s House† is about a woman’s shift from husband’s oppression to freedom; a freedom from the prescribed role by the society. Initially it looks like Nora is living a happy married life with her husband Torvald, but as the story moves we get to know about the truth. Actually, for her husband she is a mere â€Å"featherhead† and beautiful possession. He claims to protect and love her against every hardship, but when a real†¦show more content†¦The Nora and the Unknown narrator from â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper† accepted their husbands’ every order and demand obediently. They embraced their (husband s’) opinions and chose their choices over their own. At the beginning of â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper†, the narrator tells how her husband governs her against her own will. She says, â€Å"If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression [†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.] What is one to do? So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to â€Å"work† until I am well again. Personally, I disagree with their ideas†(). It shows that she has to follow her husband even if she â€Å"Personally disagree†, she know his prescribed treatment is not best for her, but she has listen to her â€Å"Doctor Husband† as she hold no evidences to suggest her view. Her husband’s directions are not choice for her, but an ultimate agreement. Her husband’s words are the ultimate guide to follow, either she hated it or not. When she told john about her strange feeling about the house, then he suggests her to do self-control. She said, â€Å"But John says if I feel so, I shall neglect proper self-control; so I take pains to control myself-before him, at least, and that makes me very tired†(). She didn’t like to control her feelings and thoughts, but she controlled them for him. The same was

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