Ruined By Lynn Nottage Sparknotes

The cost of any war is the people. In the play Ruined by Lynn Nottage, women are the cost of the war. In the play, a middle-aged women named Mama Nadi runs a brothel in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during the Second Congolese War. She takes in many women in order to keep them safe, and in return, they work in her brothel. As a result, this creates many conflicts between characters and the war. Money is a key factor creating the conflicts within the play. Money embodies the hardships of the nation. This is represented through the scarring of the land, the correlation between the land and women, and the abuse of the nations people.

In Ruined, money is related to the scarring of land. Throughout the novel, there is always a sense