Comparing Nora And Susan Glaspell's Trifles

In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House and Susan Glaspell’s Trifles a crime is committed. Both Nora and Mrs. Hale committed a crime that they believed to be the right thing to do. Nora from A Doll House committed forgery, but she did it to save her husband’s life. On the other hand Mrs. Hale from Trifles withheld evidence from the sheriff, but in her mind it was the right thing to do. Both Nora and Mrs. Hale committed a crime. The only question is; was it the right thing to do? Or was it the wrong thing to do. In the plays A Doll House and Trifles a question is asked, was it the right thing to do even if it was illegal, and should the women be punished.
In the play A Doll House the crime in question was committed a seven years before the time of the play. Nora’s husband was very sick and need to move to a warmer climate to save his life according to the doctors, but they did not have the money to do it. So Nora got a

Hale. One in particular that stands out is that they both oppressed women, but that they were both victims of their time. A time where to oppress women was the norm. They both lived in a time when women had to act in a specific way, which was however their husbands wanted them to act. (Mazur) Both Nora and Mrs. Hale were both treat as like children and that their thought where puerile. They were both also laughed at. While Torvald laughs at Nora’s spend thrift ways, where as she was really trying to pay off her loan. Then the sheriff and county attorney laughed and Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters for being worried about how Mrs. Wright was going to quilt her blanket. They are also similar because try both committed their crimes to protect someone else. Where Nora did it for her husband’s life. Mrs. Hale did it for Mrs. Wright’s innocence. While Nora loved her husband or at least she thinks she did, Mrs. Hale did not love Mrs. Wright, but she did feel that they were one and the same and need