Ibsen's Motherless Women Analysis

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After reading, "Ibsen 's Motherless Women" written by Ellen Hartman. Hartman tries to make the understanding of how children who grow up without a mother are usually more challenged then those who don’t. They think and live more diverse rather than growing up with a maternal figure, she goes into details about how the characters in his stories are more likely to do what shouldn’t be done, just because the female protagonists grew up motherless. I agree with the observation they made of women because women had it difficult back then already, not imagining the experience of being motherless. For instance a mother guides a child and without that they have to grow up making decisions on their own. Life was more difficult for Nora because she …show more content…

To the reader it is evident since Nora grew up motherless she is perfectly able to make the choice to leave her family or friends so she can sustain her goals. For when Nora tells the reader “I have to try to educate myself … to discover myself and the world out there (Ibsen pg.). She is saying that she has to leave and abandon her family for her benefit. Like said previously, early separation from a mother figure can cause ambivalent attachments throughout a child’s life. For instance one ambivalent attachment shown was when Nora’s guardian Ann Marie tells her “The children are begging so hard to come in to Mama” and Nora replies ““No, no, no, don’t let them into me! You stay with them”(Ibsen). She thinks that Ann would be a better mother just like how she was for Nora. The conflict changes towards the end because she realizes that what she is doing is wrong and when she says “Oh, this is a sin against myself, but I cannot leave them” (Ibsen). She clearly shows traits of being ‘motherless” because she is able to make her own decisions that she feels would benefit her …show more content…

Utilizing case of demonstrating how it can rationally influence a woman for a lifetime because of the certainty of required a moms care and love. Likewise demonstrating how it influences a child’s way in turning into a mother themselves. I agree with the author and his points throughout the article, demonstrating a motherless child is obscure of the untrue love that is originated from men, in both the period of the composed play furthermore present. The article and composed play successfully go together hand in hand as an inseparable unit demonstrating points of interest on how it is ideal to have a mother in a child’s

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