Comparing Creon And Nora From A Doll s House - 855 Words

Jocasta and Nora In ancient times and even in the twenty century women were diminished and discriminated; therefore; they always had to follow what their men said. Women would not have a credit card or even have the chance to take a loan without the consent of their husband. They had to be careful of things that could affect their image if they were from a high status. Sometimes women had to keep some things from their husbands, so they would not lose their husband’s trust. The crisis that Jocasta from Oedipus the King, and Nora from A Doll’s House, are going through is similar, as both keep a secret from their husbands which has a huge impact in their entire families. They confuse their own feelings or values with reality and mistakes feelings for ideas which causes a tragedy in their families. In the story of Oedipus the king at the beginning Jocasta does not have any idea of what her husband it is to her. Later on she finds out that her husband it is her own son w hom she throw away because when he is born a bad prophecy is giving to him. She tries to stop him when she realize it and she starts begging him, she tries to stop him. As an example, she says to him, â€Å"listen to me, I beg you: do not do this thing!†(Sophocles 1088) Also she says â€Å"you are fatally wrong! May you never learn who you are!† (Sophocles 1088), that gives us a clue, at that point she knows Oedipus is her own son and that the prophecy has already begin to happen in his life. The journalist AndersShow MoreRelated Comparing A Dolls House and Oedipus Rex Essay1672 Words   |  7 PagesComparing A Dolls House and Oedipus Rex Ibsens drama A Dolls House, serves as an example of the kind of issue-based drama that distinguishes Ibsen from many of his contemporaries. The plays dialogue is not poetic, but very naturalistic, and the characters are recognizable people. Given the sense of modernity which the play possesses it seems unusual to compare it to a Greek tragedy produced more than two-thousand years previously. On closer examination however, there