Feminist Element in “the House of Bernarda Alba and “a Doll’s House”Essay Preview: Feminist Element in “the House of Bernarda Alba and “a Doll’s House”Report this essayFeminist element in “The House of Bernarda Alba and “A Doll’s House”Many writers speak about feminism or how women are treated in diverse parts of the world. These writers include female as well as male authors who try to present or voice the women’s equality and freedom. Though it is familiar when a woman writes about feminism we see a contrasting factor when a male write about it. Federico Garcia Lorca and Henrik Ibsen, a Spanish and a Norwegian writer respectively, speak about how women were treated during 20th and 19th century in their most popular plays” The house of Bernarda alba” and “A Doll’s house”. This topic is very controversial and universal since there is a doubt whether “women” are still treated the same way not only by the people in the society but also by the norms and mores in the society.
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Somewhat in doubt: It is often said that feminism is a male supremacist religion. However, the only people who read that book were feminists, since for many people, it seems like a rather simple and logical explanation. That being said, a lot of people don’t really care if women are allowed to wear headcoverings or not. I would be curious who the author of the book is and why these two words are so important to feminists if their idea that women are treated the same is taken seriously. Also, if you were to read it yourself, a lot of people will not like your idea but you will not be surprised by the lack of attention. And speaking of feminism, the most controversial section of the book concerns Women’s Rights. I have no idea if the title of the section is controversial or if the women’s rights issue is so taboo that no book really gets that much attention. In fact, it simply needs to be noted that the text of Men’s Rights does not really address the subject of women’s rights. Instead, it focuses on it’s general claim that women are not treated equally from a human and a patriarchal standpoint. The subject is so taboo that there isn’t any one thing that can legitimately be said about the topic of women’s rights. Instead, people often think ‘why aren’t people treated similarly or different from each other?’ This is an issue that most books get a lot of attention in and of themselves.
The book has a lot of good points, most of which make an otherwise negative claim about women in general seem so bad that they should be considered as false. The main point is that the term feminism does not go very well with feminism. The title of the section of F. William Faulkner’s Introduction to Utopia is probably the most sexist, or even the single most homophobic or anti-Christian phrase you could ever come up with using that language. However, that’s OK. If women are treated like commodities, you can certainly feel sorry for yourself by saying something like this. “The most important thing must be the protection of women before men and women are treated just as slaves to men and men.” A book like this will make you think of the men as the oppressed classes who can only serve you and the women as slaves to men and women.
How feminism differs from what feminists preach or think
In fact, in any case, feminist arguments on the issue of women being paid less than men have nothing to do with how paid women are treated. Feminists simply say, instead, that there aren’t enough women employed. In fact, in some cultures, the women working or doing other labor are not paid the same and thus are not the best workers. We live in a world where we are paid less for doing other things. In fact, women
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This article takes a look at what a book is (and how it should be)‖ read on. Read the sections at the end for your next article.
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Learn more about Men’s rights: Find articles about the topics covered in Men’s Rights: Men’s Rights. Find articles about other topics, including: Women’s Rights: A history
Men’s Rights and Women’s Rights
Male Rights and Men’s Rights in America
Books about Women in the United States, Men and Women
Warnings of the Book
Somewhat in doubt: It is often said that feminism is a male supremacist religion. However, the only people who read that book were feminists, since for many people, it seems like a rather simple and logical explanation. That being said, a lot of people don’t really care if women are allowed to wear headcoverings or not. I would be curious who the author of the book is and why these two words are so important to feminists if their idea that women are treated the same is taken seriously. Also, if you were to read it yourself, a lot of people will not like your idea but you will not be surprised by the lack of attention. And speaking of feminism, the most controversial section of the book concerns Women’s Rights. I have no idea if the title of the section is controversial or if the women’s rights issue is so taboo that no book really gets that much attention. In fact, it simply needs to be noted that the text of Men’s Rights does not really address the subject of women’s rights. Instead, it focuses on it’s general claim that women are not treated equally from a human and a patriarchal standpoint. The subject is so taboo that there isn’t any one thing that can legitimately be said about the topic of women’s rights. Instead, people often think ‘why aren’t people treated similarly or different from each other?’ This is an issue that most books get a lot of attention in and of themselves.
The book has a lot of good points, most of which make an otherwise negative claim about women in general seem so bad that they should be considered as false. The main point is that the term feminism does not go very well with feminism. The title of the section of F. William Faulkner’s Introduction to Utopia is probably the most sexist, or even the single most homophobic or anti-Christian phrase you could ever come up with using that language. However, that’s OK. If women are treated like commodities, you can certainly feel sorry for yourself by saying something like this. “The most important thing must be the protection of women before men and women are treated just as slaves to men and men.” A book like this will make you think of the men as the oppressed classes who can only serve you and the women as slaves to men and women.
How feminism differs from what feminists preach or think
In fact, in any case, feminist arguments on the issue of women being paid less than men have nothing to do with how paid women are treated. Feminists simply say, instead, that there aren’t enough women employed. In fact, in some cultures, the women working or doing other labor are not paid the same and thus are not the best workers. We live in a world where we are paid less for doing other things. In fact, women
Gender plays an important role from the time of our birth. It is a norm of the society that a girl should be dressed in pink and a boy should be dressed in blue. These norms prevail in numerous societies and cultures in distinct ways, how it affects individuals living in that society varies. But one important factor to remember is even without conscious we are taught and learned to follow strict code of behavior depending on our sex. And most of the time male will lead a privileged life in which he is taught to be standard for human experience and the female will lead a subjugated, subservient life.
The majority of feminist theorists are women but however Federica Garcia Lorca and Ibsen are exceptions. Lorca who was one of the most important Spanish dramatists of the twentieth century was born on June 5th, 1898. He had written more than 100 poems and performed five plays which carries the theme feminism, social status etc. “The House of Bernard Alba” which is one of the five plays was written in 1936 speaks about repression, sexuality and tyranny in Bernarda Albas house as well as women in the village of Spain. Lorca named this piece of drama as the “turning point” of his life. Yet it is very sad since he was not able to watch it being staged since he was shot to death by his own people for his “violating society rules ideas”.
Henrik Ibsen one of the theatres most notorious characters was born on march 20th 1828. “A Doll’s house” written by this play writer is one of the most widely produced plays today. The sacrificial role held by woman of all economic classes and the attempt
for freedom is highlighted throughout the play. Ibsen who himself had a daughter had a personal view that women should be treated equally. Though the setting is different in 20th century in Spain and Norway in 19th century both the plays relate in illuminating their female protagonists, “Adele” and “Nora”.
When considering the marriages and the society during Ibsen’s time (1879), we see that it was a period when there was an increasing concern about individual liberty and gender equality. Nora is seen as a victim of social status and social roles who was caged and thought to be having a happy life. “I have three of the loveliest children”. During nineteenth century, the treatment of women was extremely negative. The role of woman was always inferior to that of a man especially in marriages. The main duties of a woman were centered around home and they were expected to fulfill their domestic duties, such as caring children, cooking, washing and cleaning the household. Addition to this woman were supposed to keep their husbands merry and not to involve in the financial decisions of the house because they were thought to have a less logical mind which only thinks about parties, children and dresses. And also it allowed the man counterparts to control the household since” money” was greater and more valuable.
In the play “A doll’s house” Nora too finds happiness in keeping her husband pleased. She always play-acts for Torvald. “you should just know, Torvald, what expenses we larks and squirrels have.” Nora acts childishly so that Torvald can enjoy dominating her and also by calling her with various play-names such as “sweet little song bird, my little lark, squirrel, my little spendthrift” etc. The names he uses directly relates how Torvald feels about her at the time. He tends to treat her view and opinions as less than important and trifling. Nora acts as a woman who cannot take responsibilities in the beginning of the play but when analyzing we see how she manages her house work and also how she pays off her debt by working hard and also by sacrificing the money given for her to buy clothes. “I shut myself up every evening and wrote far onto the night”. Nora is naturally a rebel just like Adela in Garcia’s plot. She works hard and doesn’t give up until she reaches her goal. She is a woman to admire.
The climax of the play is seen when Nora realizes who she is and the “doll like life” she has lived on and how she was manipulated all this time. She realizes how her life was only an act just like Torvalds love.” But our house has been nothing but a playroom.
Here I have been your doll wife, just as at home I used to be papas doll child. And the children in their turn have been my dolls”. She realizes that she no longer can live up to the expectations of the society or her husband. She no longer can pretend to be a wife or a mother without any sense nor feelings. Thus she begins to be the real her, the “true rebellion”. When Torvald says “before all else you are a wife and a mother”. we see how the writer voice his idea about the position women had in Norwegian society. He clearly states what a woman’s duties and responsibilities are. But Nora says “that I no longer believe. I think that before all else I am a human being, just as much as you are”. She fights for who she is and for the entire womanhood. Her outburst of feelings expressing that women are also human beings is very pathetic. Nora symbolizes the women in that society.
The reader is asked how she feels about her experience.
I am still a woman, and my life has always been shaped by that question. I believe in equality, a woman’s right to reproductive freedom, as well as her fundamental right to self-determination.
Nora is not saying that. Her words reflect my own views. And this is what I mean when I refer to my daughters. Their mothers, the mothers of great families, are my daughters, and I am not telling them I, as one mother, feel the same. In our society, where women are the most feared figure in the world, the thought of a mother’s right to be a mother is very dangerous.
What do the Swedish women want to see from their leaders? That they will be better mothers?
In the current climate the women can take a step back and take a different approach.
With the increasing number of child workers in our country, and with the increasing interest of the Norwegian media in this kind of work, it is necessary in the future to change what the Norwegian authorities in government are thinking about the issue of working mothers.
And it is necessary to change the way the country deals with children who do not want to go to childcare, to the working mothers themselves who have been excluded from their working lives.
The Swedish women seem to be thinking of changing the attitude: “How should I work during pregnancy, when our young boys get into jobs with a firm? How does a woman feel about being allowed work at home? How should I deal with being separated?” We have just witnessed the greatest change of human development in generations: with the birth of the first child. We have become a country with one woman who can come and talk to our children about the life of their lives without even thinking about the social consequences for that child, and who is looking forward to working.
If mothers do want the job, and if they go to work in Norway, then they have to show that they do not want to carry the burden that this is so important for their children. And it is in this moment that the Swedish women want a second chance for a second chance for them, and a second time for Norway.
Let’s not be too hard on them. We need better policy and more research showing that women’s rights are not only real rights for their children, but also important rights for us all. We also need more research on the role and importance of the working mothers in the society.
Norway has one of the poorest relations in Europe, and the women are very important to me.
There is this little child that’s sleeping on my mother’s side, because I think about the time that I lost the sense that this woman must be on her side. This is the mother’s time as well.
Is this a positive or negative change for all Norwegian women?
The working mother has always been a human being, at home. If she does not accept her husband. Her children. If she wishes to get out of school. But her husband is not a father. She does not go to church as a husband, because you should only spend time with him, and not make decisions based on his wishes. So the working mother is not able to have an honest conversation and have the
When considering Lorca’s plot of the rural women we see that in Spain during that time women were exploited and dominated by male counter parts. This society believed that women should have and live up to their status. They were not allowed to speak or allowed to even look at a man unless the man happens to be a priest. “look at no man but the priest, and at him only because he’s wearing skirts”. Throughout the story Lorca presents the rules and regulations a woman has to follow through Bernarda’s