A Doll's House Sacrifice

The roles of a men and women are habitually pondered by those in a society. However, to what degree are we to differentiate the roles in which a man and woman can provide for not only their families, but rather their individuals selves as well? During the time of the 1800’s, women were seen as second class citizens compared to the superior men in any degree at that time. In opposition, to their inferiority status, women began to protest for their rights in breaking away from the social norms or shall we say clashes. To display such opposition in the society came a Norwegian playwright with realism on his mind. In 1879, a man who went by the name of Henrik Ibsen published his most controversial play A Doll’s House. What makes this play so contentious

In an overview, Ibsen draws out a rather bleak entry of the role of women in all economic classes whom sacrifice their integrity, love, or rather any mortally being in relation to blood. For instance, Nora’s nurse Anne-Marie, had to abandon her daughter to support herself since the father was nonexistent. By being “a poor girl who had been led astray” she found homage in finding a job that was becoming Nora’s caretaker. (Henrik 906) In addition, in act three, at such a loss for principles can be displayed in the heated argument between Torvald and Nora. In Torvald believing that “no one gives up honor for love”, which represents that of controversy between what women are burden with in men who think of themselves as too prestigious for loss of recognition displays itself in the comment of Nora whom states, “Millions of women had just done just that”; in losing their dignity in the sacrifice for a man’s honor (Henrik 939). In retrospect, to further prove that of the immolating of women, in this case Nora, can best be identified in that of “Helmer's idealism and Nora's unthinking echoing of it make them theatricalize both themselves and each other […] in various idealist scenarios of female sacrifice and male rescue” (Moi