Women over the course up till pretty recently have always been second to man. Women couldn’t do anything without the permission of their husband.But over the course of history, women started to slowly gain the same rights as their male counterparts. From voting rights to fighting for equal pay. The familiar structure has been changing as well, with even some families where the mother is the head of the household. In A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and Trifles by Susan Glaspell, you see the change the drastic measure the ladies are willing to put themselves through. In this paper you’ll see how what these women did in their respective times went against the normal in their culture. Both Trifles and A Doll House are centered around the traditional…show more content… Wright in Trifles lashes out against the cage of her gender role by killing her husband, Nora’s character decides she wants to break free from her gender role Nora’s complex personality proves to be hard to predict to the very end, when she decides to shirk her duties to her husband and children to focus on herself, to serve her own needs for individuality. Indeed, Nora quite easily refuses to be the rag doll in her husbands house anymore, once she realizes that they have never exchanged a serious conersation in their entire relationship not including the talks they had earlier about Krogstad or about family fianices. You see small acts of rebillion from Nora when she snakes on sweets forbidden by her husband and when the husband finds the sweets, she lies: saying her friend brought…show more content… We begin to see the power of human relationships when these women try to solve their problems, without the help of men, on stage. And that is exactly how they wrote them to be seen—not as women, but as strong independent people . Those are the effects that occur when we allow what we read and see to influence our thinking, and ultimately they are why Trifles and A Doll's House have become so renowned as plays that challenge gender roles.
Women over the years have been gaining power and breaking glass ceilings. Women are now teachers. They are doctors, they are supreme court justices. They have the right to choose, the right to education in most areas of the world. The right to vote, the right to do pretty much what they want. In A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and Trifles by Susan Glaspell, you saw the change the drastic measure that these ladies are willing to put themselves
