Journal: Hope of Change

Having read Ibsen's "A Doll House" I couldn't avoid a feeling growing in me towards Nora and towards the criticism made in the play to her society. A society that was on existance a long time ago but which resembles the one of our persent days.
What Nora expects for her life is not what society has planned for her, for women. She cannot fight. She cannot fight for love. Eventhough she did it , this is no supposed to happen. And in reward for her fight she obtains nothing but a marriage from which she finally runs away. Her husband is a witness of her departure. She leaves hopeless. But not everything is negative. Because by watching her leaving, by the realiztion of not having her anymore, the hope that is inexistent in the woman appears curiously, in the man. And this is a hope of change, a hope that makes me thought of the transformation of societies. Which hasn't yet reach to a final result. And what is more important, which results have been very few. Because chauvinism, disrispect, slavery and submission are concepts that unfourtunatelly haven't really disappeared of our ways of living.
Some hints of this issues are perceived in Ibsen's play. At least for me. Maybe, they are not clearly perceived because the voice of the author is present but not really to discuus those topics, but to criticize a society which within its vast hypocricy this issues are also found.
In my opinion, it is imposible not to relate Nora with the begining of a social transformation, and with the seeking for a more fair one. Especially, a more fair society for women, for whom the problem is not yet solved. But the hope, that the female character losses and which is present then in the man, has spread out. And it is still living in many of us. We still dream to see things arrenged in a different way. A way in which every being occupies the same place within society and has the same rights as everybody else has...eventhough no one knows how long this would take, it's just this thought the one which feeds this hope of change.