Gender Relations in A Doll’s House and How Did I Miss...

Gender Relations refers to the power relations between men and women. Under patriarchal society, men and women do not stand on an equal ground, men shows superiority and women have lower status than men. Under patriarchal values, men possess higher status and act a dominant role, women are obliged to live according to their gendered roles, to be submissive. This notion of gender relations is like a culture, it affects how men and women interact and perceive one another, it also propagates though interactions between men and women. The imbalanced power relations between men and women can be found in a lot of Western and Chinese writings. A Doll’s House is a play written by Henrik Ibsen. In A Doll’s House, Henirk Ibsen presents the female†¦show more content†¦In both texts, the writers present women who lived under patriarchal values. They both suffered because of their unconventional traits, they acted in ways they wanted, neglecting the expectation from society. For the female protagonist in A Doll’s House, she did everything out of love to her husband, but that was opposed and rejected by her husband. For the female protagonist in How Did I Miss You, the female protagonist possessed masculine traits and it made her suffer. This paper is a close study of imbalanced relationship between men and women shows the suffering of women under patriarchal society. In the two texts, women are expected to act as subordinates to men. Women possess lower power status than men. Men are seen to be superior and stronger than women. The imbalanced power relations between men and women are shown in the texts with different illustrations. First, women are expected by society to play their gendered roles. These gendered roles as daughters, wives and mothers are always subordinated to men. In A Doll’s House, women are confined to their gendered role, they are not considered as individuals, but only playing different roles in a family. For wives, their role is to take care of domestic stuff and please their husbands. In the text, Nora, has been taking care of domestic issues like decoration for Christmas and caring her children. Besides, women are treated as