Manulation of Women

Manipulation of Women

In the play A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen, symbolizes the nature of Helmer’s marriage. The play was less about the rights of women than about human rights; generally less about the particular social conditions responsible for the position of women (Diyanni 1053). In nineteenth-century Norway, the need for individual of both sexes is to treat each other with mutual respect (Diyanni 1053). In nineteenth-century males were dominant and authority. A wife was not allowed to contact a third party (Wollstonecraft 11). Women could neither sue a third party for personal injuries or losses nor to sued by others unless her husband was included in the lawsuit (Wollstonecraft 12). Under common law- the ancient unwritten law of England on which American law is based a husband and wife were regarded as one person, and that one person was the husband (Alexander’s 21). As a result of this concept of “unity of the spouses,” women who married surrendered much of ...