Essay Females in Conflict

1. Biographical information on Ibsen—Concluding sentence: Sub-thesis, his play and Nora

2. Nora’s treatment by Her father and Nora’s treatment by Krogstad

3. Nora’s treatment by Torvald

4. Nora’s contrast with Christine

INTRO: Females in Conflict

Yet another voice to champion the cause of inequality of the sexes is Henrik Ibsen. Writing at the end of the nineteenth century in Victorian Norway, his play A Doll’s House utilizes the format of a playwright to convey through the use of evolving characters how different political and social messages. When analyzing A Doll House’s protagonist, Nora, her interactions with the other characters depicts both indirect and direct social and political commentaries on the treatment of women in the early nineteenth century, especially in its treatment of male dominance over women and the desire of women to be independent thinkers deserving of respect. This is depicted through Nora’s treatment by both her husband and father, her dealings with Krogstad, and in her contrast with her friend Christine.