Gender Inequality In Trifles And A Doll's House

Gender roles and inequality are still evolving and continue to change. It has only been not that long ago that women started to break out their outlined roles and looked at about the same or- almost the same level- as men on a wide scale basis. Indeed, some women in certain parts of the world are still represented in the same way as in both plays that will be compared in this essay. The characters in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll's House highlight the challenges of gender roles. The attention focused on points of comparison and contrast of men vs women's reactions in the course of both plays, which, allow the audience to think about gender identity and role conflicts. The other common shared view in both plays is that they are both showcased from a female perspective.
The plays, Trifles and A Doll’s house utilize symbols throughout the scenes to represent the way women were dealt with and perceived all through the nineteenth century. The symbols provide the audience ways to perceive the plays principle similarities in the representation of women, for example, men releasing ladies as inconsequential and portraying them as property; then again, the plays reflect the women’s ways of life as

different of the men’s. As an example of symbols, Susan Glaspell utilizes the bird cage and dead bird to resemble the part given to women in marriage and society. Another comparison with the use of symbols between both main women in the plays shows how the men compared them to pets, which reflects how they were looked at as an object and property. Mrs. Hale describes Mrs. Wright “was kind of a bird herself” (Glaspell 1054) and Torvald calls Nora his “lark” (Ibsen 1259). Both symbols of metaphor shine on the underlying message of the plays —birds are restricted, held from their freedom in a cage same way women are stuck to only answer to their roles as society and men perceive them. Where their needs are not the priority but the catering for the house, the husband,and children are what dictates their lives.
While Mrs, wright is presented as the housewife that broke out of her cage to seek freedom in a violent way by killing her husband Mr Wright.

Nora’s character was released herself in a different way, by choosing to leave her current situation and attempt to find her true calling as a women, away from her duties that were only serving her husband and focusing on her children. The symbol of her slamming the door on her way out, along with the rejection of changing her mind after her husband begged her to stay infeciaze on the birth of a strong character at the end of the play. The internal conflict of roles in Nora’s chartchter was showing through the transformation of herself from being a passive, carting housewofe to a strongwelled indepanandt

woman.
Some of the other representation supporting the theme of gender role lye in the women relating to Mrs. Wright’s situation, they had more sympathy toward the event than the men. it could be due to the fact, that they themselves see the hard work that goes into being the gender that answers to all the men’s demands and responsibilities. In other words, the men approached the event with less concern since they address women cocerns with little to no importance.