The celebration and self-fulfillment of women was atypical for this time
Promotion of equal rights and liberties
I would like to look at this play from the perspective of Foucauldian notion of Panopticism. Nora seems to be entrapped in the panopticon of patriarchy. The panoptic nature of societal power makes women’s social position more vulnerable to be effected by patriarchy.Let me first explain, briefly, Michel Foucault’s concept of Pantopticism:
Foucault expounds the concept of Omniscient power governing our society by elaborating the concept of panopticon. He explains how panoptican gives power over people's minds through architecture and how behavior is modified. Foucault picks …show more content…
Escaping panoticon is actualy escaping Lacanian the symbolic order where you only see you through the lenses of other. your ego is splitted and fragmented. Juliat Mitchel a Psychoanalyst feminist offers two way out. Maddness or death. She explains with reference to Wuthering heights. The condition of cathy. We can also see other examples. Marry in grass is singing. Edna in The awakening antinoitte in Wide Sargasso sea. And also the in Hedda in hedda Gabler. But a doll’s house subverts this thesis. After realization that she is imprisoned in a panoticon she breaks it and rebel against the dictates of social norms and institiation which tries to conform women in a specific closets. I would like to quote the lines where she gets the realization that she is trapped in a panopticon and the effect of panoticon vanished when you realize that you entraped. And there she decides to shun the dictates of