Marriage and family have played a major role in women's lives throughout history and especially in the United States. This role has mostly been restricting. Many people in the United States have grown up with the concept of "romantic love", equal treatment with their significant others. However during the old ages, the subject of equality was taboo. There are still other parts of the world where the concept of male dominance as norm. I decide to address this issue because I grew up with a lots of girls in my family, and two of my sisters being involved in bad marriages, I am somewhat sensitive to this issue. Plus ironically I come from a conservative tradition that embrace male dominance relationship in a marriage, at least all the core beliefs suggest that. "A doll's house by issban and antgone by clearly illustrate this unfair social status that's given to females in a marriage. Women have been an inspiration for many writers for centuries. They have resented as symbols of beauty, affection and strength, and we usually connect them with motherhood and raising children. The works about women very often reveal not only lives of women, but they also describe the times and problems they had to face, and they provide a very clear picture about the whole society of the times when these works were created. I will use antigone and a doll's house as a prime example in explaining a women role. Comparing the modern day women to the women in the old society, we can look into the past and the present and see how women's roles have changed. Women did not play an important role in society at all. Their job was mainly to cook, clean, taking care of the children, and keep the house in order. They were treated as a material possession rather than a human being that could think and act for them and looked upon as a decorative member of the household. Women were treated just as sex objects, alive just to sat...