Reflection#1

A Doll’s House = A Doll on a Music Box

When I first saw the clip “Doll on a Music Box”, I was thinking about a play named A Doll’s house by Henrik Ibsen.  Nora can be seen in every scenes of the play.  Nora’s husband controls Nora as a child, and her main duty is housewife and taking care of her children.  Both a Doll on a music box and Nora have many things similar.  They are a feminist that men’s power is over women’s role.  They cannot start to talk about their own feeling.  I saw almost every woman in the crib afraid of showing her mood, especially a queen.  She quietly sits next to a king and keeps herself silence.  However, it seems like a man has more freedom to do anything in the society than a woman does.  All men in the scene are able to reveal their emotion.  Women are limited a territory in a social.  For example, a Doll on a music box is limited on the quadrilateral box.  She cannot walk, talk, and think.  Similarly, Nora is limited in a house.  She is not also allowed to go, and think out of her house.  Both of them must be lost themselves because of people around them.  When a doll looks in a mirror, she does not know herself.  At the same time, besides housework, Nora knows nothing in the world because of man’s dominance.  In the present, I think men and women are still unequal in some countries in the world, especially Asia region.