How can we interpret these plays, Slam the Door Softly by C.B. Luce and A Doll's House, by H. Ibsen in terms of feminist point of view?

Both A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen,
and Slam the Door Softly, by Clare Boothe Luce, are written with a
feminist viewpoint for both of the female
protagonists.

Ironically, Henrik Ibsen, author of
A Doll's House, did not consider himself a advocate of
feminism.

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Ibsen believed that women were best suited to be
mothers and wives, but at the same time, he had an eye for injustice, and Helmer's
demeaning treatment of Nora was a common problem. Although he would later be embraced by
feminists, Ibsen was no champion of women's rights; he only dealt with the problem of
women's rights as a facet of the realism within his
play.

And while Ibsen was
simply attempting to draw attention to the mistreatment of women as a source of social
injustice by way of Nora Helmer's life, the play has become a literary "anthem" of a
woman "wronged" by her husband who decides to go into the world alone to "find
herself."

Ibsen's play provides us with the character of
Torvald Helmer who has little consideration for his wife's intelligence, maturity or
capabilities. His concern is more about his own reputation than the importance of being
alive—especially in the male-dominated society of which he is a willing
part.

Clare Boothe Luce wrote Slam the Door
Softly in 1970. It was her last play. Something of an early feminist
herself, she did not follow a traditional path, as a woman born at
the beginning of the 20th Century. To help support her family, she became a "call girl."
In 1919, she became interested in the "suffrage movement" (early women's  rights
movement, pushing to receive the right to vote). She ultimately became a journalist and
writer, and later, a politician as a member of the House of Representatives,
representing a district in Connecticut.

Whereas Ibsen
writes about a woman's search for personal freedom, Clare Boothe Luce
lives it. Slam the Door Softly is a modern
version of Ibsen's play. Thaw Wald (the Torvald Helmer character) is sitting his chair
when his wife Nora (the Nora Helmer character) enters with bags packed, ready to leave
her husband. We get the sense that he doesn't know enough about his wife to anticipate
that she might need more than their relationship
provides.

This is much like Ibsen's conclusion to
his play. In both cases, the women have decided they must leave
home to try to find true happiness. Like Torvald, Thaw cannot conceptualize that his
wife intends to leave. In fact, both men believe their wives should be perfectly
satisfied with their life and not have any reason to be
unhappy.

The biggest difference between the two stories is
that in A Doll's House, when Nora leaves, there is the sense she
will not return, although Torvald wonders, as the door closes, whether a miracle could
occur. However, in Slam the Door Softly, Nora departs, but the
audience realizes that the husband and wife still love each other, and there
is hope that perhaps after a time, they will be reunited—if both
are willing to work at
it.

Additional
source:

http://www.playdatabase.com/play.asp?play=D83021D6-0083-4F3F-BA07-26F99A103B12