I think that there are a lot of examples of oppressed women in marriage, but while reading A Doll’s House, I noticed how in almost every manner it relates to the movie Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus. Both Diane Arbus and Nora were oppressed in their marriages. Nora was oppressed by her husband more than anything else, but the connection can still be made that the act of simply being married oppressed both Diane and Nora. Diane was an extremely unique individual, but when she was married to her husband she was not able to pursue what she actually wanted to do in life. Her husband loved her and said that she could do whatever she wanted, but Diane still felt oppressed by the fact that she could never really follow her dreams (as bizarre as they were) while she had to take care of her daughters and her husband. It took a stranger to show Diane that the life she was living was not who she was, and she, like Nora, came to the decision that leaving was the only option.
Marriage was oppressive for Nora in the exact same way, because she felt that her life under marriage was nothing but a lie. Both Nora and Diane ended up leaving their families to go after their dreams, in spite of the fact that society labels women who do such things as horrible people. Diane was a little bit farther “off the deep end” than Nora was, but the connections between the two women are still very strong.
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