New Woman in Liminal Space: A Studyof Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler

Abstract

The plays A Doll’s House and Hedda Gablerbegin with the union of couple through their marriage and end with their separation from home and society. Nora and Hedda are women who seek to fight against patriarchy on the one hand and accepts the same patriarchy by their deeds on the other hand .They do not confort a challenge to assert their autonomy and to prove themselves as new women. They get nothing in life except making themselves participant in a loosing battle. Their ideal thinking and their real activities are unbalanced and they themselves become the victim of their own effort. The escapist nature of both protagonists is nothing but the surrender. So, Nora’s and Hedda’s escapist nature show not any bravery of them but their surrender to patriarchy. However much they try to resist patriarchal domination they themselves prove them into the space of liminality in course of being new women.