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Why Does Nora Do Not Value Medea

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In the play Medea, written by Euripides we are introduced to Medea who has given up her honor, pride and her homeland just for her lover, Jason. Jason does not value Medea even though he has had children with her. He exiles her without even considering her feeling. She even raises his children and instead he goes off and marries another princess. Jason does not value Medea and Euripides wanted to show this point that women at this time did not have any reputation or status. Men at that time period were to marry and divorce freely as they pleased. While the women were not able to do anything about it. Medea in the plays argues that women are bad, but they are made bad by situations in which they don’t have any control over. In the end where …show more content…

She is portrayed as being a doll like character who is childish. She is married to Torvald who is in charge of a bank. She is very happy in the beginning playing with her children and talking with her friends however as the play goes on things start to take a turn for the worse. She ends up being blackmailed by Krogstad, a lawyer who ends up working at Torvalds bank. Nora originally forged a signature of her father so that way she can borrow money to use for Torvald’s health. She could have easily gotten out of being blackmailed if she was more knowelegable. She did not know it was illegal to sign a contract on behalf of her father. She has to struggle, going through so much just to pay back her debt to Krogstad and handling the issue of being exposed and sued. Torvald is seem as demanding and never actually loving Nora and getting to know who she truly is as in the play Nora tells Torvald how they never had a serious talk about how they truly felt. After the message is revealed to Torvald he becomes angry. He bans Nora from ever seeing and playing with the kids even though Nora did so for his benefit. He also demands her to sit down and not go anywhere subjecting her to follow his orders. After they have a serious talk Torvald says that a man can never sacrifice his reputation for anyone not even his wife. Nora tell him that hundreds of thousands of women have. She later leaves Torvald, giving up being with her kids to discover who she truly is. So Nora stands up for herself to discover her values and Ibsen wanted to highlight that fact, that women should not be taken as for granted they should be valued and that women need to stand up for themselves and not be constrained to the way society was back then. Nora’s friend Mrs. Linde had to abandon Krogstad for a better life for her family. The nanny also had to abandon her children just so she can find a job to live and earn

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