Nora vs Candida: A Feminist Analysis of Ibsenite and Shavian Protagonists

This study aims to investigate Victorian society’s toxic stereotypes, enslaving gender roles, and subtle patronising behaviours of males towards women through the lens Nora from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1889) Candida G.B. Shaw’s (1894). Moreover, this research compares different feminist ideologies Ibsen Shaw Candida’s actions. were denied their social, economic, political, religious, or even moral rights. Shaw, heroines, strived expose injustice female sex. The methodology is a comparative, descriptive analysis selected plays by employing theory feminism. succeeds in highlighting oppressive designs used against male-dominant patriarchy distinguishing unique approaches Shaw.