DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN IBSEN'S A DOLL'S HOUSE: A SOCIO- PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY

Abstract

The infliction of domestic violence on females can be assessed as the most common phenomena in the nineteenth century. The hazard is especially big for females that are financially reliant on and confined. Investigation of the components which uphold circumstances of violence has commonly centered independently on the coping stereo types females, difficulties to disposing of the connections and the committers' means of violence. In the paper, we employed a socio psychological view to look for a larger awareness of what retains circumstances of violence, so as to recommend intercessions in male dominated society. It also highlights the more extensive understandings of domestic violence and focuses on the socio mental highlights of Nora's character in A Doll's House. We have a broader consciousness that home violence is to impose hegemony and domination over females and includes not merely sensual and physical violence, but contains some of activities such as isolation, pressure and degradation, such an activity frequently called as a socio mental act. There is a big interconnection between domestic violence and women exploited by patriarchal system. The text analysis has revealed a clear correlation between domestic violence and patriarchal society. Ibsen shows the domination and violence by depicting his protagonist character, Nora.  Hegemony and violence of male dominated society create a wide gap between men's and women's relationships. Ibsen refuses the situation of women and considers how far the changes in strategy and exercise have raised the security of females facing local violence and empowered them to free themselves from violence. The connection between violence and society shows the interrelation between Eric Fromm's view and Ibsen's view.