A Doll's House Evolutionary Analysis

Equality will never be attained in society because of the innate inequality that exists between people. In A Doll’s House, the primary conflict between Nora and Torvald was far more than sexual, it was also legal and social. From a late 19th century point of view, equality would be envisioned ideally, for the fact that our egalitarian policies were not to be implemented until much later. Now, we have put in place policies that aim to reduce the inequalities between sexes and have seen not only a completely negotiable effect, but an increase of inequality at some points. This will be elaborated on later, but with the social and legal current in favor of inequality, why is there still a huge gap in the statistics? Another point to that must be

In A Doll’s House this was touched on in an extremely basic level by the Torvald’s insistence of Nora’s emotional immaturity, specifically when he treated her like a pet. An evolutionary analysis is useful here because it is both scientifically substantiated and empty of anything that could be manipulated to be sexist or offensive. Women in general have been shown to be more empathic, for example it says in the groundbreaking study ‘Empathy:Gender effects in brain and behavior’“Together, reports of these behaviors in nonhuman animals make a convincing case that females possess greater levels of empathy compared to males, in at least some species. If such sex differences were purely cultural in cause, then this implies that either animals are likewise transmitting cultural expectations of gender (possible, but unlikely), or, more parsimoniously, that such sex differences in humans are driven by some biological root, which humans share with other animals.” This conclusively shows that the enhanced empathic abilities observed in women is not purely culturally derived. Another point to be made is the distinctly reproductive and child-rearing capabilities women have. In combination with the benefits that the special bond created between a mother and her child, it is unreasonable to expect a woman to be as active economically as men. Being a “career woman” and being able to provide the

This interpretation of what is happening is completely wrong because of the disregard of the personal choices women make in the economy. For example, in a study conducted by researchers at PayScale, it was determined that “one reason the National Committee on Pay Equity finds a pay gap of 77% is they don't control for major or job choice and instead compare differences in the national median salaries of men and women. Also, it is important to look at where women have an advantage on men with median salaries. This was found out in a report by Bloomberg News that “shows that women who head the nation's largest companies are earning substantially more than their male counterparts. Their average annual pay over the last few years? Just over $14 million dollars.That means women earned 40 percent more than men in 2009,". Would a supposedly oppressive male-dominated system allow this to happen? I think not. In conclusion, the arguments presented can only be made with a restricted view of