"A Doll's House"

It's a play that I've recently read for my IB English class. Despite it being rather short- about 90 pages- it actually has a lot of content in it. It's centered around Nora Helmer, the wife of a bank manager, and how her husband's job influences her life. Many of the situations she is put in reflect the treatment and general thought of women in that time period, the late nineteenth century. She and her friend Christine Linde are the only two females in the novel Women were much lower than men in a societal scale, even in relationships. Nora would often ask her husband's guy friends to ask him of a favor, because they had more influence than she did on him. He also continually talked down to her, and acted like he possessed her. Near the conclusion of the play, Nora wants to leave her husband. He insults her intelligence, in telling her that she's not smart enough to know what she wants. Eventually, and rightfully, she walks out. I'm using this book to prove that the place of women in society links to their protests for equivalence in the twentieth century, such as earning the right to vote. I picked this topic, because I love to study minorities breaking out into society.