I chose love as my topic for the documented essay. The works that I am going to analyze are " A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen and "Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin. These two works particularly interest me because they both represent couples who are not fully satisfied with their partners, but both women stay with their husbands for a long time even though they are not happy and crave something else is life. Both women share similar qualities and feelings towards their husbands and dream of the same types of freedom. The stories seem sensible considering the times in which they were written, the times of Chopin and Ibsen were that of woman marrying for social status, and acceptance and not necessarily for love.
             The play " A Doll's House", by Henrik Ibsen, is concerned with the conflict between social lie and duty. The play is about woman's need for independence and her obligation to family and society. The two main characters, Torvald and Nora have three kids, a nice house, and to everyone it seems like they have the perfect life. But when Torvald started to talk, we can feel that something is wrong with this picture. "My little songbird", "my little squirrel" and even "my little featherbrain", these are the names that Torvald calls his wife. He treats Nora as a child. He thinks that she is stupid, and must be controlled. When Torvald discovers that Nora forged her father's signature on the load bond, he nullifies their marriage. He doesn't care that Nora did this because she loves him, and she did this to save his life. He is the man of "honor," " Nora, I would gladly work for your sake. But no man can be expected to sacrifice his honor, even for the person he loves." And she answers him, "Millions of women have done it" ( Ibsen Page 70 ).
             When a person loves as Nora does, nothing else matters. She w...