A Dolls House

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In today’s society women are not only the backbone of the family but sometimes considered to be the one to hold the family together through thick and thin. Women want to be treated as an equal to the man. Women have fought and even boycotted but still men continue to control our society and most of the time they tend to have the final say so especially in the household. In the stories A Doll’s House and Sweat this idea of what we now call a “woman” does not even exist. Women have the right to every thing a man has a right to and more. In examining these two stories they are very similar in a great deal that they both dealt with the fact that the man in their life, in my opinion, could not handle an educated or dependent woman and they really felt intimidated. Women are people too and they should be treated as such.

In the earlier days women spent most of their time in the household. Women were expected and taught to be a foot pedestal to men. The men were taught to “bring home the bacon” and provide for the family. Women, on the other hand, were expected to support their man and “do as they were told” and if their husband’s wanted anything they were to cater to his every need, no questions asked. Women had no voice, they were basically considered as property to their husbands instead of a wife or helpmate. In some cases even daughters were treated like this also. If a man wanted to marry another man’s daughter he would have to get her father’s permission and in some cases pay the father to marry his daughter. This was done because the father would be loosing help, sort of like an employee, so the man had to pay him so that he could continue with his work.

In the story A Doll’s House Torvald, the husband, treated Nora, his wife, more like his daughter. But one day she finally got a backbone and left. She wanted to learn, to be educated, and to find out who she really was. In one part of the pl...