Most people would define a great female protagonist as intelligent, strong-minded, and willing to fight for what she believes in. Bernarda Alba from Euripides' The House of Bernarda Alba and Medea fits this description. One is a tyrannical mother who imposes her choices on her five daughters, the other is undoubtedly the strongest non-Olympian woman in all of Greek mythology. If we look more closely, we notice that these two characters have many things in common. From their positions of power to the masculine aspects of their personality; from how they handle situations to the role they play in the deaths of their children. In this essay, we will attempt to research their similarities, as well as discover how two playwrights, who wrote for distinct audiences millennia apart, were able to create two women so similar. First of all, it is important to place the two “heroines” in the context in which their story takes place. Bernarda Alba was created to be the allegorical form of the Spanish dictator General Franco. His control over his daughters therefore closely resembles the right-wing military dictatorship that Franco created in Spain. Medea was written centuries earlier and takes place in the world of Greek mythology; the protagonist has just been abandoned by her husband Jason for Glauce, the princess of Corinth. We know that “most of Euripides' thinkers are women”1, an apt description for Medea, very mentally strong and determined. It seems that these women are very different when it comes to the question of power. Bernarda Alba is immediately powerful in all aspects of the world in which she lives, and particularly in her own home, "tyrant of all those around her"2. Medea, on the other hand, immediately seems completely helpless: “But what about me? Abandoned, homeless, I am the toy of a cruel husband”3, she is a stranger to Corinth, she has burned all her bridges in her native land, her husband has left her and she now has no protection in a land that is not his. own. However, thanks to her determined character, she overcomes this “handicap” and takes matters into her own hands: “The day I will make the corpses of three of my enemies, my father, my daughter and my husband, my husband. »4 This fact makes her unlike any other tragic hero in Greek mythology; another would have let this weakness take over his destiny.