Both A Doll’s House and the Antigone are stories of young women who clash with the conventional male-dominated power in their society. Anouilh’s Antigone and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House have young female protagonist who struggle against male opponents with whom they have family ties. Antigone conflicts with her uncle Creon in the novel Antigone, while Nora Helmer opposes her husband Torvald in A Doll’s House. In both plays, the male …showed first 75 words of 1347 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1347 total…able to rise above them. In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Nora struggled with her husband Torvald, initially unaware of her submissiveness in the relationship. Despite the inferior attitudes of society towards women, she still found the courage and strength to rise above them. In Anouilh’s Antigone, Antigone was clearly a threat to Creon’s masculinity and his sense of control. Antigone was strong, and thus transgressed from her boundaries as a woman.