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...oll's House. Nore must be the wife that Helmer wants. Helmer must be firm, dominant and possessive of Nora. All the characters are playing a part in symbolism. Nora is the "wife", Helmer "the model husban". They all hold a significance in portraying society as a place to conform. 2. Human Rights vs. Feminism The overl prospective of a Doll's House is Human rights. There is a feminist aspect if you take apart different parts within the play and analyze them, but looking at the play as a whole it is dealing with human rights and how people should treat one another. It comes down to equality of people and equality of rights. You could easily reverse the roles of Nora and Helmer and the story would and could end up with the same outcome. Helmer would feel oppressed and upset and then he would get fed up with it and leave Nora. That would be a more modern way of looking at the play and even a paralell to it to show how the two roles are so easily reversed. People in society are placed in a position to feel that they must live up to a standard. Women must be young looking, thin, beautiful, blemishless, tan...everything that TV and other media place upon them. Men should be the dominant one and be the bread winners and when they are not, they are displeased with themselves. In A Doll's House, Nora is suppose to play a certain role, a passive wife who lets her husband take care of her. Helmer plays a role that is dominant, overpowering and possesive of Nora. They both fit a profile of what society is trying to get people to conform to. They, as in society, puts you in a place that makes you uncomfortable and feel out of place. They try and make you something that you aren't. They, in essence, manipulate you into believing in a strict code of what "should be." Pygmalion was about the social distinction defining social class: in shaw's society the upper and upper middle classes led comfortable, even luxurious lives. they insisted on rigid class barriers in order to protect their own privileged position. in pygmalion shaw suggests that if high society thinks a flower seller is a duchess or a princess simply because of her appearance and speech, then these social distinctions must be empty and artificial. if a flower girl can be a duchess, then the only diference is that a duchess has inherited more social prestige and money. the differences are social and not natural. feminism, equality and social conventions: in shaw's days women were not treated as persons in their own right, but as the property of fathers and husbands.(e.g. dollittle, eli...