Free At Last

The second theme in the play A Doll's house would be women being oppressed. Torvald's wife Nora is very oppressed and looked down upon. The way Torvald talks to Nora shows it. He calls her his "little bird" and birds are usually kept in cages as pets as Nora was. Torvald also restricts her from certain things. For example he doesn't let her eat as many macaroons as she would like to eat. I don't think its right for any man to control anything a women does especially when it comes down to something like food. She should be able to eat whatever she wants whenever she wants he has no right to keep her from eating macaroons. I found a poem that really sounds like something that Nora would have written before leaving Torvald.

Why should I listen to you
tell me what to do?
You don't know who I am
or the things that I've been through.

I'm on the outside looking in,
somewhere you've never been.
So who cares who I am,
or what it is I think or say,
what it is I write,
or why I act this way;

You have no standards anyway,
never understand a thing I say.
Your mediocrity at it's best.
So who even cares about the rest?

I'm disgusted by your weakness
tempered with your fragile meekness.
You're just another tragedy,
a messed up lie was your gift to me.

I never have perfected
the tolerance you've expected.
It's so simple but you just can't see,
that you'll never understand
someone like me;

So different from everything
that you believe,
I'm sick of the life you've given me.
All I want is to be free.
POEM BY: CHRISTY Z

When I read this poem I instantly thought of Nora. Torvald really did not understand her and she wished he did. He never managed to so she got tired of the life he had given her and she wanted to be free. Nora broke out of her cage and soared away from Torvald. I have a lot of respect for her for doing that because its really hard to leave everything especially kids and she left hers in order to live a life that she never had but always desired. Oppression was a big issue back then and still is in some countries. There are places today where  woman still can not work, drive, they have to be covered, they get abused, and have very unequal opportunities because men are viewed as superior. I think these woman deserve to be set free and the only way they can is by doing what Nora did, leave everything behind and don’t look back.