This final thesis analyses Nora Helmer and baroness Charlotte Castelli Glembay, female characters of dramas A Doll’s House (1879) and The Glembays (1928). Considering that both plays belong to the epochs of realism and modernism, they show the fundamental characteristics of those two periods. The thesis also introduces the authors Henrik Ibsen and Miroslav Krleža, as well as their opuses and selected plays. The main female heroines are analysed in separate chapters while the last one focuses on their comparison. Nora is a naturalistic drama in which Ibsen criticises Norweigan civil society in nineteenth century. Likewise, Krleža criticises the one in Zagreb in The Glembays in twentieth century. Both dramas are characterized by dynamic dialogues with brittle and short replicas, and emphasised psychologizing of the characters. Also, they consist of three acts through which the development of the female heroines is followed, together with the other characters. Nora develops from a puppet woman through a suffering woman to become an independent woman who makes decisions about her own life whereas baroness Castelli Glembay evolves from a harlot woman with certain characteristics of a suffering woman and becomes another tragic Glembay woman. The above mentioned heroines are related by the fact that they both reject the masks imposed on them by society and try to fight for the same comfortable and independent life as men in their milieu.