Comparing Gender In Candide And A Doll's House

The Role of Gender in Candide and a Doll’s House In the novelCandide Voltaire writes a humorous yet gruesome satire of society by telling the story of a man named Candide, the bastard nephew of a German Baron, who grows up in his castle and falls in love with Cunegonde. Candide is thrown out of his home and forced into many awful situations, due to his relations with Cundegonde. Candide joins forces with many others who have gone through traumatic experiences in his search for Cunegonde. In the DramaA Doll’s HouseHenrik Ibsen demonstrates how he views the inequality that women of his day had to suffer through just to live average lives, by showing us the transformation of Nora Helmer, from a subservient housewife into an independent woman.
There are many different types of sexism in Candide and a Dolls House. However, it would seem that in A Doll’s House the women can escape the sexism and unfairness,
When Kristine and Krogstad had their secret conversation it could have been predicted that Krogstad would turn her away or make her seem silly and useless simply because of her gender; However he revealed that they used to love each other and that Kristine left him. The reason Kristine left him was that she needed to go and work to earn money for her family. This introduced two new concepts to the story that we had not seen before, one being that women could go and work to support three people (her two brothers and her mother) and the other being that there were women that weren’t simply looked down upon solely for their gender. It is assumed that Kristine was looked down upon by men but not so much as Nora or one of the women from Candide’s