The long white strings tangled around their arms and legs, every move being controlled and decided by someone else. They are dolls. They have no say in what they do. Throughout time, women have been controlled by the men in their lives; the men tell them what they can do, say and wear, they are the dictators. As the men were the controllers and moneymakers, the women were expected to be the homemakers, doing all of the cooking, cleaning and child care.
In A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and Trifles by Susan Glaspell, the women are treated like marionette dolls, controlled by their husbands. The common theme of abuse by men brings the two plays together, however, they differ in their social status and their escape from abuse. Women are treated…show more content… In the play A Doll’s House, Nora finally realized her self-worth, she learns that Helmer was only worried about his self-reputation and had no real care for her, she finally decides to leave him. There are many things that led her to leave him, the first was the way he treated her, he constantly treated her like a child and never defends her when secrets come out from the past. She sees how she deserves much more, “I have been performing tricks for you, Helmer. That’s how I’ve survived. You wanted it like that. You and Papa have done me a great wrong. It’s because of you I’ve made nothing of my life”, she learns that she has done nothing with her life simply to please her husband, which is not how a marriage should be (Ibsen; 849). The constant “tricks” she performed were being controlled like the strings on a doll, forcing her to do things she does not want to do. Nora followed the usual way of leaving a husband, she simply just walked out of the house. Though Helmer tried to apologize for his insults about the letter, Nora states that “I have never felt more clearheaded and sure in my life”, she knows what she is getting herself into and the journey she is about to embark on by herself (Isben;850). Nora took the subtle and typically normal way out of a marriage, however Mrs. Wrights took a brutal and very irrational way to elevate the marriage and the
