Comparing Women's Equality And Finding Their Voices
Women’s Equality and Finding Their Voices In each of the three texts, the married women look to find equality between their spouses as well as a voice in which they do not have in their outside communities. Mrs. Wright, a character whom never is shown to the reader struggles silently living with her controlling husband. Nora Helmer is a young mother longing to be her own woman and find her way. Like Nora and Mrs. Wright, Janie Crawford struggles to find her inner voice and fights for equality with her spouses.
Mrs. Wright is never present but her voice is somehow found through the women that are in her house for the investigation of Mr. Wright’s murder. Through Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, her story is given to the reader as though she were telling it herself. Like Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters have no voices in their marriages. They simply are forced to shy away in the kitchen while their husbands go throughout the house. Mrs. Hale begins to describe the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Wright and closes in on the absence of Mrs. Wright the past several years “I’ve not seen much of her of …show more content…
She is treated as a child would be treated. She has continued on the path from her early childhood, being treated as a doll or a play toy to her father and now the same with her husband. Nora battles with finding her voice as she hides a secret debt from her husband. In a way, holding this secret gives Nora a sense of power and equilibrium as she works hard to try and pay off the debt herself “But still it was wonderful fun, sitting and working like that, earning money. It was almost like being a man.” (Ibsen 1. 207) However, Nora also does something at the end that is very irresponsible, yet gives her the voice that she has been seeking throughout her marriage. She gains this unremarkable voice when she walks out of the house never to turn back. Janie Crawford has a similar effect yet it is without children being
Mrs. Wright is never present but her voice is somehow found through the women that are in her house for the investigation of Mr. Wright’s murder. Through Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, her story is given to the reader as though she were telling it herself. Like Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters have no voices in their marriages. They simply are forced to shy away in the kitchen while their husbands go throughout the house. Mrs. Hale begins to describe the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Wright and closes in on the absence of Mrs. Wright the past several years “I’ve not seen much of her of …show more content…
She is treated as a child would be treated. She has continued on the path from her early childhood, being treated as a doll or a play toy to her father and now the same with her husband. Nora battles with finding her voice as she hides a secret debt from her husband. In a way, holding this secret gives Nora a sense of power and equilibrium as she works hard to try and pay off the debt herself “But still it was wonderful fun, sitting and working like that, earning money. It was almost like being a man.” (Ibsen 1. 207) However, Nora also does something at the end that is very irresponsible, yet gives her the voice that she has been seeking throughout her marriage. She gains this unremarkable voice when she walks out of the house never to turn back. Janie Crawford has a similar effect yet it is without children being