• Syeda Nahida Yeasmin

Abstract This paper has attempted to carry out an Endeavour to find out a factual solution for the controversy, regarding gender that, power, domination etc., are not limited to people of anyone of the two genders. God has given both man and woman the privilege and ability to exercise their power. Power remains equally mixed up with man and woman. Henrik Ibsen (1 828-1906) ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late nineteenth century. A pioneer of realism, he explores in his plays the essential alienation within the modern human condition. A Doll’s House was not about female emancipation. What Ibsen meant was that the theme of this play was the need of every individual, whether man or woman, to find out the kind of person he or she really is. Mainly he focused on the contradictory attitude towards power and sexuality of the 19th century Norway and more particularly the female desire for power as a consequence of this inequity. A careful reading of the plays of Ibsen clarifies that they are not about women's problem, they are rather about peoples conflicting sense of power, a problem of mankind in general”. It was not Ibsen’s desire to deal in his plays with so called problems. A short speech reflected his desire for individual liberty and self-fulfilment for all just for woman but for "mankind" in general. Ibsen rejected the gender approach to problems. He wanted us to look at humanity and human problem inclusively. He disapproved of looking at problems in exclusion or isolation. Ibsen also shows that, gender problem in his plays and in our society as well are man-made. The study finds that men and women are as complementary sources not opposing forces. Men and women are a combination. And this combination is the solution for all human problems. This is a qualitative study which is explorative in nature.

Keywords: Gender, Power, Equity, Conflicting sense, Problem, Humanity, Combination.

"Gender Equity and People's Conflicting Senses of Power: Analysis from Ibsen's ''A Doll's House.''", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.c17-c30, June-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206202.pdf

"Gender Equity and People's Conflicting Senses of Power: Analysis from Ibsen's ''A Doll's House.''", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no. ppc17-c30, June-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206202.pdf