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Essay / Analysis Los Vendidos - 1059
The same property applies to Nora in “A Doll's House” by Henrik Ibsen. In the play, Ibsen “explored the conflict between the social and moral restrictions of bourgeois society and the psychological, often unconscious, demands of individual freedom” (Worthen, p. 666). Nora, throughout the play, is owned by her husband, Helmer, who has forbidden her from doing certain things, such as going into town to buy macarons. This represents Nora's lack of power in her life as a woman in a society where a man can overpower her, and how gender roles play out in this era. The same concept is found in Mexican models where the Americans who buy them have power over them. They are purchased and used for work from the used Mexican lot, and have no control over who buys them and what work they perform.