In the book "The Awakening" and in the play "A Doll's House," both of the main female characters were faced with the decision to other stay with their family where they felt they were being suffocated or go off and do what they felt was right for them. Each woman chose a different path to take. Nora chose to leave her family behind and move on with her life as a single woman. Edna tried to escape her life through her affair with Robert, but when she realizes that he is the same as her husband she makes the decision to swim off into the ocean and commit suicide. The author in both the play and the novel, showed the stance of woman and went against society at the time.
I think that both of the females were strong in their way and that they had the right to do what they felt was best because no woman deserves to be unhappy. At the time that these plays were written women had one purpose and that was to have children, for the two main characters to not want to stay with their children is completely crazy! Even today woman are judged more than men when they leave their children behind. If a woman doesn't fight for her children or try her best to raise them and support them she is frowned upon in society, but if a man leaves it's not that big of a deal because they don't have that motherly instinct... It's still their child. I don't think it was right for Nora to just leave behind her children like that. Even if it was what was best for them because they know her, they love her and they will want her in their lives but they don't have that. Even children who are adopted still want to know their real parents and know if they still care about them. I think that women should have a choice on whether or not they have children, but if they do they should at least try. To me children mean everything. If I couldn't have kids I would be devastated because that's just how I see it. A woman grows up, gets married, and has kids. I'm also very old fashioned though. I just think that it is possible for a woman to have a life, but also have a family because that is her life. They are what will continue her traditions and her values. They are not her and they never will be her she needs a life outside of her family but she still needs to dedicate time to her kids.
