ok . . . easiest way to do this is to look at what was going on in the nineteenth century.
You've got (most generally) feminism, religion being shaken up by people like Darwin and things like liberalism and evangelicalism, you've got very much a contradiction in that things like feminism were giving the individual more of a voice, also Marxism - his quote that "religion is the opiate of the people' means he wanted the individual not to blindly accept things like religion anymore; but also being suppressed by things like Darwinism and socialism.
Your two texts . . .
Dolls House: reflected feminism, most obviously. The writings of Austen, the Brontes, Shelley, the formation of the Women's Rights Association in the US and the suffragette movement - Ibsen was a big supporter. Religion was becoming more personal, less traditional - Nora goes on a search in the last scene to find something beyond the religion she was taught as a child. The psychology of the play could be attributed to the atmosphere of psychological discussion brought on largely by Freud.
Pride and Prej . . . when you look at it, she actually didn't make that much of a statement. She wrote behind closed doors, she didn't want to be seen as losing her femininity and so at the end of the story Lizzie, the character everyone says is all defiant marries a rich, successful man. This is all Pride-and-Prej-the-book stuff, though, I didn't do it as one of my texts (i chose browning) and so i dont have heaps about the film . . . the only thing i remember is how he presents the rich characters (mr collins and lady catherne) as very satirical, which I suppose could emphasise the emergence of the poorer classes that is seen in the book.
I miss three unit . . . i got out my old notes and realised i miss it! if there's anything else you want to discuss or you need to understand, msg back and ill check this more.
Good luck
