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A 4 page paper which compares Edna, from Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Nora from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. No additional sources cited.
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depict the struggles of women in society. They are women who are relatively well taken care of by their husbands and by society but also women who ultimately find that
they do not have any identity that belongs only to them. The following paper compares these two women; Edna from Chopins novel and Nora from Ibsens novel. The paper also
focuses on what will, and does, happen to the women after the stories are over. Chopins Edna and Ibsens Nora As seen by the dates relating to when the
novels were written, it was a time when women were expected to be wives and mothers and daughters, and nothing else. Women had no options in society except to become
married and then become good wives and mothers. There were, of course, women who were prostitutes or servants or teachers but generally these were positions that poor women held and
any respectable woman was married with children. Both of the women in the novels were of such a position in their societies. Both women were constricted by this and both
made dramatic changes to somehow move outside of those constrictions and find themselves. In doing so they both move to different endings, both of which incite a sense of freedom
after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, with themselves. In the following one
sees, from the beginning, the interaction between Nora and her husband Torvald: "Helmer. Is it my little squirrel bustling about? Nora. Yes! Helmer. When did my squirrel come home? Nora.
Just now. (Puts the bag of macaroons into her pocket and wipes her mouth.) Come in here, Torvald, and see what I have bought" (Ibsen I). In this one
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