A Doll's House Women

Throughout the past centuries women have been fighting for their rights and freedom in society. In the story “A Doll House” the theme is how each character is trying to find out the kind of person he or she is and to strive to become that person. Ibsen the author of the play portays this behavior in A Doll House through one of the main characters Nora Helmer.
During the Victorian society time period women did not play an important role in society at all. Their job was mainly to cook, clean, sew, raise and take care of the children, and keep the house in order. They were treated as possessions rather than a human being that could act and think for themselves. This was expected out of them in society. Women were robbed of their identity as a

Women had no power to speak up, husbands had legal power over and responsibility for their wives, child custody and divorce laws favored men, giving no rights to women. Nora’s friend Christine Linde who is a widow husband died and left her penniless and being that her father passed away, she is able to apply for a position at he the bank. This is the only exception society made in women holding a job outside the household. Women have come a long way since the Victorian time period, gaining the same rights as men. Voting rights, rights to an equal education, owning property, and having a job made women move up in society. Throughout the play, Nora plays the role of a typical women in the 1800s, staying by her husband’s side, taking care of the children, and doing all the household chores. She does, however, go behind Torvald’s back when she takes out the loan. When she realizes that she deserves more than how she’s been treated and what she’s been putting up with she walks out and says, I have got to educate myself” (Ibsen 915). Nora walks out the door and expresses a way of feminism telling Helmer that she no longer knows how to be his wife and no longer knows who she is. Walking out on your husband was very uncommon for women to do during the Victorian time period as they do today. Women were taught since they were little to please their husband and do everything in their power to satisfy and make him