Examining Gender in a Doll House |
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| Author:
| Barry, Debbie |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4903-7437-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $5.95 |
Book Description:
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Ibsen teaches an important truth through the story of a family's collapse over the three days of the Christmas holiday. Men can be weak and women can be strong. Women can be rational and men can be emotional. Men and women can be logical, illogical, reasonable, and fanciful. The stereotypes imposed by society on masculine and feminine genders need not define each individual within the society, and each person has and exhibits a wide range of personal traits that together describe the...
More DescriptionIbsen teaches an important truth through the story of a family's collapse over the three days of the Christmas holiday. Men can be weak and women can be strong. Women can be rational and men can be emotional. Men and women can be logical, illogical, reasonable, and fanciful. The stereotypes imposed by society on masculine and feminine genders need not define each individual within the society, and each person has and exhibits a wide range of personal traits that together describe the unique individual. There is no special honor to strength, rationality, and reason, and there is no special shame attached to weakness, impulsiveness, and imagination. Each trait is a facet of humanity; humanity would be lessened by the exclusion of any one of these traits in one gender or the other, and humanity is strengthened by the inclusion of strength and weakness, stability and caprice, rationality and imagination in each and every individual, regardless of gender.