Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ21462

Power Struggle and Gender Clashes Between Masculinity and Femininity in Isben's A Doll’s House

Authors(1) :-Dr. Anita Goswami

According to feminist criticism, the roots of prejudice against women have long been entrenched in Western culture and ideology.Gender discrimination advocates such myths that the male is by nature superior, and female is inferior; and the one rules and other is ruled. These myths of gender and race distort the relations between women and men. In a world of male dominance, men are endowed with power for political and socio-economic reasons, and they manipulate their power to control their opposites to satisfy their masculine desires. Henrik Ibsen, one of the leading modern playwrights, realizes the social problems arising out the marginalization of women of his age .His dramatic art exposes an in-depth exploration of familial, socio, cultural, economic, and psychological conflicts faced by women in everyday life. Ibsen has earned popularity and fame among audience, critics, reviewrs, and scholars around the globe through shedding new light on his women. The aim of this research paper is to focuses on Ibsen’s plays in the light of his attitude towards female subjugation, marginalization, subordination, pyschological trauma, dilemma, rights and suffrage of women, both in the contemporary society. A Doll’s House is a blooming field for feminist criticism. The main subject or issue o which the drama A Doll’s House is written is on issues of women’s position in family and society. More specially, its subject is of women’s status in the society and their treatment by men, the lack of true love and respect for a wife by a husband, and the lack of justice and dignity in the treatment of women in the society.

Authors and Affiliations

Dr. Anita Goswami
Assistant Professor, Department of English , IEC University Himachal Pradesh, India

Marginalization, Gender Discrimination, Subjugation, Women Suffrage, Male Dominance.

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 4 | Issue 6 | November-December 2021
Date of Publication : 2021-11-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 07-15
Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ21462
Publisher : Shauryam Research Institute

ISSN : 2581-6306

Cite This Article :

Dr. Anita Goswami, "Power Struggle and Gender Clashes Between Masculinity and Femininity in Isben's A Doll’s House", Shodhshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (SHISRRJ), ISSN : 2581-6306, Volume 4, Issue 6, pp.07-15, November-December.2021
URL : https://shisrrj.com/SHISRRJ21462

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