Between A Doll's House And Trifles By Henrik Ibsen

A Doll House is a three act prose play which means that they resemble a short story rather than poetic verse which was written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879. The play opens up close to Christmas where Nora comes home and her childhood friend comes to visit to tell Nora that when her husband died, she was left with no money and no children and asks if Torvald would give her a job. Nils Krogstad then arrives and states that Torvald wants to fire him from his position at the bank. He then asks Nora to use her influence to ensure that his position remains secure and when she refuses, Krogstad points out that he has a contract that contains Nora’s forged signature of her father and that he would tell if she help him keep his job. Later Krogstad tells
In both plays the women who have been repressed and controlled by their husbands and societies expectations. They both take steps in order to take control of their lives. In both plays, the women come to a realization of a woman's true meaning in life, which was not known before that. In A Doll's House, the realization comes to Nora, but later in the play. In "Trifles", the realization comes to Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters who were witnesses to their neighbors abuse. In A Doll's House, Nora is married to Torvald, controls every aspect of her from her spending habits to what she wears to the ball. By the end of the play Nora come to the realization that she has been ling for the sake of Torvald’s well-being and sees herself for what she really is and leaves her husband and children.“Still, you know that we can’t spend recklessly.”(1346; act 1) In Trifles, Mrs. Wright has been abused by her husband emotionally by him taking everything from her including the bird which her strangled. She finally breaks and murders her husband in his sleep. Both of the women in the plays change, but in different ways, which they