‘Miss Julie
In ‘Miss Julie,’ females are treated as the main instigators or offenders of transgressive behavior. This is seen between Stanley’s talk about Stella in scene VII ‘She (women) could take him without giving herself into his power. Rather she could use this sex thing to have power over him.’ Such a view is commonly held concerning the 20th-century women who most people feel that she may not necessarily be in love with her male partner but uses sex to get what she might be desired from the man, say, money, status in society, etc. In contrast, the male transgressors, on the other hand, use sex to conquer women who are in superior places in society, but this is interpreted as a disgrace to the women. This would seem to suggest that it is oka for women to use sex to manipulate women since the said men do not seem to lose their worth. In contrast, if this happened to women holding high positions in society, they lose their worth and are disgraced. Sex is used here as a means to leverage social inequalities and hierarchies but work in different directions to female and female counterparts.
Hysteria was historically defined as a female disease that came about when a woman refused to accept her sexual desires and chose not to become a sex object. In the Dollhouse, Nora is described as “An angel in the House” enslaved by marriage to submissively adhere to the needs of her husband and children while feeling trapped in a house full of chauvinism. Social criticism is conveyed when Nora is treated as just a “doll,” a “Silly girl,” and a “child” in the house. She is referred to as “just like a woman.” In the 20th century, thee are still many women who miss out on job opportunities, promotions, and other opportunities in life because they did not give in to sexual advances from men who had control over their prospects, like company bosses, house-hold heads, etc.
In “A Doll’s house,” Nora slams the door at the end of the play. Throughout Nora’s life, her husband controlled her, and she had never experienced independence, She was never treated like the male characters around her were treated. She feels belittled, and it is ta this time that she chooses to lose these chains by walking away. The 20th-century woman is slowly realizing her place and is starting to ask questions. The modern woman is, therefore, working hard to beak economical, cultural, religious, and social chains that have had her bound for so long.