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In the nineteenth century, also known as the Victorian era, society valued women very insignificantly, regarding them with extreme negativity. Examples of this would be that women were expected to stay home, fulfill domestic duties, and take a subordinate position towards their husbands. Literature of this time embodies and mirrors social issues of women in society. A Doll's House, a play by Henrik Ibsen, while written in this time period, introduces a female protagonist as …

…her own. "The girl, now nearly fifteen, was a constantly revealing miracle...In that moment grace became an adult. But sometimes now, when she didn't know she was being watched, you could catch a glimpse in her eyes of something that was more than merely adult. Twice gone to hell and twice returned. She had seen and from it gleaned some sad and stilling wisdom that was old as time itself" (449). *Improve grammar and structure