Works In Translation Reflective Statement on "A Doll's House".

oral, there was a bout of ideas as to whether Nora was the good or bad woman in this situation. She left her children to “find herself”; In today’s day and age that suffices as the norm but in a time when women were considered weak, feeble and fragile, juxtaposed to men; was she really doing the right thing? I found it a trifle difficult to understand why some people thought she was wrong; maybe it was a cultural barrier or just a difference in opinion. Women today need men as much as men need them, the roles have been reversed and a woman today can handle her own finances and expect to be morally accurate without the help of her spouse.For the most, the differences could be affiliated to the time and place. Norway was home to a conservative, morally strict, male dominated society at the time of Henrik Ibsen. Considering theatre was overpowered by fantastical plays through our interactive orals, it is clear that Ibsen's realistic plays were the first of their kind, which correlates to the reception it received. There were a lot of similarities I could see in terms of cultural similarities, olden day Norway is still alive in a lot of Asian societies that profusely believe the man is the bread winner, the man is more intellectually and physically stronger and a woman simply commits herself to domestic work and sacrificial roles. I suppose I found myself questioning my own morals. Was it wrong to believe Nora was right? Does she really have a moral obligation to her children and family before herself? I don’t know how society then could even expect that of her but then again, society then would probably find the practices of society today blasphemous. The interactive oral proved I wasn’t the only one who thought Nora did the right thing and it is important to read Ibsen’s play to realize that an outsider cannot comprehend the workings of a particular society without being a part of it. Word Count: 407