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This 3 page paper discusses the way in which Victorian society oppressed women, especially in marriage, and how Ibsen shows this oppression his play A Doll’s House. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Victorian Society and Its Reflection in A Dolls House Research
Compiled by K. Von Huben 10/2010 Please Introduction Victorian society has very strict standards and rules
governing marriage; these rules were very oppressive to women. This paper discusses what Victorian society expected from married women, and how Henrik Ibsen portrayed these conventions in his play A
Dolls House. Discussion The Victorian view of marriage and family was simplistic, idealistic and overwhelmingly oppressive to women. "Victorians tended to view the family as a peaceful and love-filled
refuge from the impersonal and competitive world of work and politics. Women presided over the home, while men sallied forth into the public realm" (Shanley 3). This view sharply divided
society into "womens concerns" and "mens concerns," and of course all the power and responsibility lay in the mens arena (Shanley). Victorian feminists tried to show just how false this
"idealization of marriage" was, as well as "how repressive marriage and family life could be for women" (Shanley 4).But despite much struggle, these early feminists had only partial success, because
"no piece of legislation ever fully reflected the principle that the only proper basis for marriage law was full legal equality between husband and wife" (Shanley 4). Instead, the convention
that women should remain at home to provide a loving refuge while their husbands went into the world remained strong in the Victorian era, and women remained repressed. (This paper
doesnt have room to go into the odd and damaging Victorian beliefs about sex and reproduction.) The sharp division between mens and womens approved areas of concern is well illustrated
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