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A Comparative Study of Euripides’ Medea and
Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

I. Kanaga Priya


Euripedes 484 BC - 406 BC
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Abstract

Euripides and Henrik Ibsen are noted for their delineation of strong women characters. Despite being Grecian and Norwegian, the female protagonists of these two writers are strikingly similar in many ways and yet so distinctly dissimilar in other ways. In Medea by Euripides and A Doll’s House by Ibsen, ‘marriage’ is the crux of the tragedy. Medea and A Doll’s House are set in different eras, but Medea and Nora, the chief protagonists of the plays respectively, find themselves in marriages that have difficulties and complications and even betrayal. Both the authors show the significance of honour in marriage and how the lack of it jeopardizes a relationship. Medea and Nora risk their honour and dignity, to uphold the respect that is required in a marriage. Torvald and Jason’s use of wives as subsidiary “objects” for their own self interest, alter both Nora and Torvald’s and Medea and Jason’s relationship with their children. Medea and Nora struggle for individuation and for identity beyond class and gender with varying degrees of success. Both of them, however, share a sense of outrage at centuries old institutions of male prestige and control. Medea decides that in order to avenge Jason, she must make him suffer the way he has made her suffer. Nora also reflects that her “sacred duty” is not to her husband and her children, but first and foremost, to herself. Thus, destroying or building a family rests in the hands of the woman though she may be considered as insignificant in the eyes of her husband.

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I. Kanaga Priya, M.A., M.Phil., CGT., DTP., DCA., ADFE.
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