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Similarities Between Free Birdie And A Jury Of Her Peers

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Free Birdie In the works “A Jury of her Peers” by Susan Glaspell and “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen, the independent woman is the major thematic connection. Ibsen’s Nora Helmer is valued by her husband Tolvald Helmer as a trophy more than a human. In Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers,” the main character Minnie Wright after enduring years of abuse, murdered her husband. Minnie’s close friends come to her house with the sheriff and county deputy. Who are looking for clues that Minnie killed John Wright, but do not realize that the answer is glaring right at them. It is revealed that Mr. Wright was a male chauvinist. Nora and Minnie are weary of being viewed as objects and seek to be strong, independent women. However, both …show more content…

Nora and Minnie have just floating around with no serious meanings to their husbands lives, just a pretty doll and a bird. The forces that encourage the women to leave are two completely different extremes. Nora has been unappreciated and talked down to her entire life. Nora has been played with and never taken seriously, first her father and than her own husband. Nora states to Tolvald Helmer “ Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls”(Ibsen 279). The realization of never being viewed as a person with feelings and ambitions, propels Nora to finally take a step towards her independence. Minnie Wright has had to put up with a lack of respect and mistreatment for over twenty years. The girl that once was a shinning light who had a phenomenal voice has fizzled out into the dark and despair. When John Wright ended the birds life he ended what little life Minnie had left. This causes her to become enraged and causes her to take such an extreme way to independence. Furthermore, purpose in A doll’s house and purpose in A Jury of her

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