A play serves as the author's tool for critiquing society. One rarely encounters the ability
             to transcend accepted social beliefs. These plays reflect controversial issues that the
             audience can relate to because they interact in the same situations every day. As late
             nineteenth century playwrights point out the flaws of mankind they also provide an
             answer to the controversy. Unknowingly the hero or heroine solves the problem at the
             end of the play and indirectly sends a message to the audience on how to solve their own
             Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekov both provide unique analysis on issues their culture
             never thought as wrong. In the play A Doll's House Ibsen tackles women's rights as a
             matter of importance being neglected. In his play he acknowledges the fact that in
             nineteenth century European life the role of the women was to stay home, raise the
             children, and attend to her husband. Chekov illustrates the role of a dysfunctional family
             and how its members are effected. Both of the aforementioned problems are solved
             through the playwrights' recommendations and the actions of the characters. In the plays
             A Doll's House and Uncle Vanya the authors use realism to present a problem and
             solution to controversial societal issues.
             While both plays mainly concentrate on the negative aspects of culture, there are positive
             facets explored by the playwrights. In A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen focuses on the lack of
             power and authority given to women, but through Nora we also see the strength and
             willpower masked by her husband Torvald. To save her husband's life Nora secretly
             forges her father's signature and receives a loan to finance a trip to the sea. Nora's
             naivety of the law puts her in a situation that questions her morality and dedication. Nora
             is not aware that under the law she is a criminal. She believes that her forgery is justified
             through her motive. She is not a criminal like Krogstad because ...