A Doll House and Feminism

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The Feminist Play The world as teens know, is very different than what their parents or grandparents knew. Feminism was a very new idea that was introduced in the time of teenagers’ grandparents. However, there was an example of feminism in literature before even the grandparents. Henrik Isben’s A Doll’s House can be viewed as the first feministic play along with it bringing upon these feministic ideas to the world. Feminism itself can be viewed very differently and it entails many ideas. Feminism in its most basic form is women being considered by society to be equal to men in every aspect of life. Feminism is a simple idea but actually applying it was very difficult for society. Men and women being equal was not the norm in society many years ago. Today, there are still problems but for the most part, women are equal to men in every way except maybe physically. Equality for women has always been a tough issue in society. Feminism is often times confused as women’s rights. This is not always the case. Feminism deals with the role of women in society whilst women’s rights mainly deal with legal matters such as a women’s right to vote. Feminism was important because it highlighted how a woman should be treated in society. It seems that throughout history, women have always played a submissive role to men. Unto this day, women in many parts of the world are considered less of a human than a man. In more developed countries however, the women have chosen that they need to be something more than just a “doll” in society. Henrik Isben’s A Doll’s House so greatly portrayed how a woman changes how she wants to be seen in society. When Henrik Isben released the play A Doll’s House, many believed that it was a feministic play. Isben himself denied this and in fact said it was more of a humanist play. This meant that the play was more geared to

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