Bernarda Alba And Medea: Created Millenia Apart, Yet So Similar

Most people believe that a great female protagonist is intelligent and familiar and will be willing to fight for what she believes. The explanation of Bernarda Alba from Euripides' Federico Garcia Lorca and Bernarda Alba from Medea is consistent with this description. One is a dictatorial mother who forces her choice to five daughters and the other is the most powerful non-Olympic woman in Greek mythology. If you look closely, you can see that there are many similarities between the two roles. From their strength to the masculinity of character, from the way they handle the situation to the role they play in the death of their children.

In the drama "Bernada Alba House" you can analyze what happened in Spain during the civil war and the drama of Bernardo Alba, the home of Bernardo Alba Spain. For Federico Garcia Lorca, this is a way to show the reality of the Spanish situation without questioning the different views on his government. In "Bernarda Alba House", the family of Bernarda Alba experienced the same situation as Spain. As Bernarda Alba has plenty of money, this family has plenty of power. But then they became poor and they lost all power. Thanks to the protection of Bernarda, we can analyze that four daughters can not freely choose who they want to get married. It can be thought that this power and protection in the home of Bernard was representative of the Spanish French at the time. Bernarda Alba does not allow a daughter to build a relationship with another man who can not choose the person whom she wants to marry.

In Bernarda Alba of Federico L'Orca and A Doll's House of Henrik Ibsen, the role, treatment, disadvantage, and sacrifice of women in society are important issues. At the house of Bernarda Alba of Federico Lorca, all the people who first appeared on the stage were female, men were only spoken. In Ibsen's "Doll's House", the hero is a woman, Nora, treated by her husband as if she were a little girl. When Federico Orka and Henrik Ibsen wrote the play, women were usually treated like males. Men and their society wish that women stay at home, cook for families, make children, and take care of children. Ibsen and Oreka wrote these scripts in decades, but since the writing of Ibsen in Norway and the writing of Lorca in Spain in the 1930s, the expectations of women are almost the same.