The Woman: A Unsvalling Link According To The Work ‘Doll Casa’

THE WOMAN: A UNSVALLING Link according to the work ‘Doll Casa’

Doll House is a written theatrical play and published in 1979 by a Norwegian poet and playwright named Henrik Ibsen. This has been cataloged as the best playwright in his country because in his works a modern and realistic style that encompasses great problems and social social themes is reflected. Likewise, this has been embodied in his work Casa de Dolls;Well, you can clearly see how Nora lives in a society that is dominated and managed by machismo. The work develops in a house where Nora is repressed and treated by her husband, Helmer, as a simple object that works to please her whims and needs. Due to this subject, some values and antivalores are immersed throughout the work, such as: love, faithfulness, pride, violence, among others. For this reason, it will be discussed: to what extent does machismo have had an influence on society?

Doll Casa is a play that has brought with it a wide variety of criticism over time. This has happened because the theme of the work shows the harsh reality lived in nineteenth century society. Well, clearly you see how Nora, the main character of the work, represents the hard and sour role that all the women of that time had to live. It was observed how Nora was not considered a self-sufficient person, but was treated as a girl who should be cared for, spoiled and maintained or, alluding to the title of the work, a doll located in a part of her house as a simple decoration.

For the reason above, this work caused a great controversy in its time;And, some time later, it was taken as a great symbol of feminism even though Henrik Ibsen was not considered or the work of his part of this movement.

If we take into account the evolution of the characters of this work, it can be clear how the two protagonists of the drama are round. To begin with, we have Nora, a woman who at the beginning of the work is submissive and unable to decide for herself. Well, she represented a woman obedient to her husband and had how the main goal please in her whims and needs, and, in this way, be awarded for it. However, this whole situation takes a 180 ° turn when Nora gets tired of being treated in that way, and begins to see and decide for herself to be able to guarantee her own good and that of her family, to the point of reachingabandon it to get your aspirations. Nora’s decision to abandon her family to self-educational and start her life from scratch. On the other hand, we have Helmer, he at the beginning of the work is shown as a man concerned with fulfilling the desires and needs of his family, who loves and deeply trusts his wife. In addition, he shows it as a proud man, with a high ego, confident of the role he fulfills at his home, and thinks that if he was not, his family would be completely lost. However, when the work passed, Helmer is attacked by his same ego, and the trust he felt not only by himself, but also because of his wife’s are greatly affected, to the point of being considered a bad husband, to doubthis wife, and reach verbal violence with her.

Once the evolution of the two protagonists of the work is seen, you can discuss the conflicts addressing these characters. How Casa de Doll was previously mentioned is a work in which Nora was totally repressed by Helmer and treated her as a person not only explicitly dependent on the decisions he wanted, but also with the aim of please his wishes and whims. Starting from this situation, it can be said that the great problem developed in this work is extreme machismo lived at that time. Well, this idea of male supremacy has greatly marked the role played by a woman in society, since, from this wrong idea, the woman has been degraded throughout history to the point whereIt allowed him to participate and develop in the economic, social, political and even ethical sense, and, in this way, not being able to have aspirations or desires. If we relate this idea to the area of human sciences in the Psychology branch, it can be said that the situation exposed above was impregnated in the heart of the nineteenth -century society until we create status and stereotypes for men and women, inthe one the husband kept the home and the wife took care of him.

If we took into account the message that Henrik Ibsen intended when telling and publishing this drama, it could be closely and directly related to the phrase expressed by Virginia Woolf: “[…] as a Woman, I have no country. As a Woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”(Wolf, 1938, pp. 83-84);that translated into Spanish would be: “As a woman I have no homeland, as a woman I don’t want homeland. As a woman, my homeland is the whole world ". This phrase defines what the author tries to expose at the end of the drama;Well, he tried to demonstrate that the man is not necessary for the survival of a woman, since she is able to sustain himself and defend himself regardless of the environment and situation in which they live and have to overcome. In addition, this phrase refers to the fact that women are free to decide about their life, their actions, their preferences and do not need anything or anyone to achieve their aspirations. In this way, it can be related to Nora, since at the end of the work she realizes that she does not need Helmer to have a good life and becomes an independent woman when she abandons her family.

In the light of the above, it can be said that the drama Doll Casa is a theatrical dramatic work in which the author, Henrik Ibsen, exposes the harsh reality of the society of his time. A reality in which the woman was repressed and denigrated by the patriarchy to a point that could not be self-sufficient or could participate in it, thus leaving them aside without taking into account her desires and hopes. In this way, a great characteristic of the style of the author of this drama that consisted of social realism based on characters that are vulnerable in a community, such as minorities and in this case women come to light and in this case women. And, thus, his work exposes machismo as a very serious problem that has affected society from its beginnings to the present. Well, this has influenced people’s psychology and has caused big problems in the way they think, making them feel superior or lower than from each other, when that is not correct. And, in addition, Henrik Ibsen makes it clear that machismo can not only damage the integrity of a person, but also destroy an entire family.