How Illuminating Is It To Read Ibsen In Feminist Terms

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Whether Ibsen intended her to be or not Nora became a figurehead of one of the century’s major social struggles, the oppression of women, especially in the middle class family. As a reader you cannot help but take note of the problems women faced in such a male-dominated society and feel a sense of achievement on Ibsen’s part in the knowledge that it aided the feminist movement...
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As a reader you cannot help but take note of the problems women faced in such a male-dominated society and feel a sense of achievement on Ibsen’s part in the knowledge that it aided the feminist movement. In this sense alone I would say it was definitely illuminating to read Ibsen in feminist terms as it highlights the importance of equality between the sexes...
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