Essay about Antingone and a Dolls House a Mens Society

Would you think that one day men would no longer be the dominating gender in society, while women would be doing things thought unheard of before like working a career? In ancient Greece and pre-modern Norway authors began thinking up unthinkable situations for their times. These situations were based on questions very similar to these. These ideas were thought of as scary, fictional, and even comedic for their time. Gender roles in society are virtually thematic in the two stories A Dolls House and Antigone. A Doll’s House, written by Henrik Ibsen is a story about the wife battling to hide a loan that kept her husband alive, because if anyone found out society would crash upon her for her bold actions. Antigone, written by†¦show more content†¦He even suspects her of doing it but will not show it because he’s afraid of the idea of a woman doing so much. Because he places her in such a low level of stature believing that she is not even able of the task s he is further insulted. When Antigone explains why she has done what she did and the reasons why she did them Creon goes to say, â€Å"You alone, of all people in Thebes, see things that way.† (Sophocles31). Creon blatantly says this to disregard what a â€Å"woman† says. He means to knock her down and let her know that what she says is not important to him and his judgment. He says this not only because she is a woman, but also to somehow prove to himself that he knows better than her. When Krogstad demonstrates that he has little care for a woman rejecting his blackmail demands when he says, â€Å"Oh, you don’t frighten me. A sensitive, petted creature like you.† (Ibsen179). This is pretty much saying that he does not feel threatened by Norah because she is a woman and is seen as â€Å"helpless†. She is so underestimated that she feels insulted, because she has taken care of this loan she knows she can take care of the loose ends of Krogsta d’s shady blackmail escapade. It was proven that throughout these plays that women would often be insulted and angered by being lowered so much in the views of men. Probably the biggest comparison of the male characters in these