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Reading Ibsen’s A Doll’s House today, one may find it difficult to imagine how daring it seemed at the time it was written. Its theme, the emancipation of a woman, makes it seem almost contemporary. Women were treated as possessions during the Victorian Era; whereas today they are thought of as almost equals. Nora Helmer is a perfect representation of the ideal Victorian wife. One example of this is Torvald, her husband, forbidding …

…and herself last. This concept is believed to true up until the 1920’s; in the 1920’s the Woman’s Rights Movement changed that. It made women realize that if they were not happy, then how could she possibly bring happiness into her home. The woman of modern time has accepted this, and it is not as unusual for a woman to leave her home if she is unhappy; whereas then she would have been condemned.