Henrik Ibsen
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Literature Review of The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
The Wild Duck The theme of The Wild Duck is that inflexible idealism can prove dangerous. Gregers in this play is an idealist; he is a seeker after truth; he hates deception and lies. This man preaches to other people what he calls “the claims of the ideal”. Gregers’ idealism compels him to break his…
The Play “A Doll House” by Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
A large deal of controversy has arisen about the play A Doll House, written by Henrik Ibsen. The controversy argues whether Ibsen’s play is feminist or not. In the play, we are introduced to a woman named Nora, who shows nothing but selfless love to her husband, Torvald Helmer, a highly respected banker. Many people…
Hedda Gabler By Henrik Ibsen Research
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen portrays a microcosm of 19th-century Norse society in his drama “Hedda Gabler.” Hedda, the protagonist, exhibits a mixture of masculine and feminine traits due to her upbringing under General Gabler and the societal mores imposed upon her. However, although this society venerates General Gabler because of his military position, his daughter Hedda is…
Doll House By Henrik Ibsen Analysis
Henrik Ibsen
Many of our choices and the things one does in a lifetime can be directly basedon what society perceives to be proper. The choices one makes based onsocietys views, may sometimes have no logic to support them. These choicesare sometimes chosen because society would look down upon the person making thewrong decision. The values and…
A Doll’s House: A Woman’s Text or Not?
Henrik Ibsen
The play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen had been widely recognized as a woman’s text. Ibsen’s piece has been analyzed and studied throughout the world on grounds of feminism, due to the underlying message which highlights the rights of women. On the contrary, Michael Meyer, the author responsible for Ibsen’s biography, begged to differ. …
An Analysis on the Importance of Staging and Symbolism in Henrik Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’
Henrik Ibsen
Symbolism
Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is an exploration of the difficulty of obtaining and sustaining individuality in a constricting society that revolves around fixed stereotypes. This theme is developed throughout Ibsen’s play in various ways that effectively communicate his opinion of society. Among the techniques used to accomplish this are his use of set and…
“Enemy of the People” by Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Literature
People
An Enemy of the People, a play written by Henrik Ibsen, is about a small town on the southern coast of Norway and how it perceives and accepts truth. The town is governed by Peter Stockmann and doctored by his younger brother, Thomas. The main conflict flares up between these two siblings and then spreads…
Literary Analysis: a Doll House
Drama
Henrik Ibsen
Suffering
A Doll House is a play by Norwegian poet Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen devoted his entire life to the theater. Ibsen is said to have changed the history of the stage. Henrik Ibsen was born March 20, 1828, in Skien. Around 1851 Ibsen accepted the position of theater poet at the National Theater. He was there…
A Doll’s House. Notes on Act 1 Analysis
A Doll's House
Act
Torvald calls Nora several pet names. What do these names suggest about Torvalds perception of his wife and Marriage? Songbird, Squirrelkin, Featherbrains All these pet names suggest that Torvald does not see him and Nora as equals. He seems to think that he has the higher status and control/power in this marriage and that Nora…
Characterization of Nora in a Doll’s House, Act 1 Analysis
A Doll's House
Act
Is it right to say that something actually is what it appears to be? Although there is no answer to this question, most people would say that the image someone shows to the outside world differs greatly from his real personality. Indeed, in the real world people play different “roles”, throughout their lives and behave…
| born | March 20, 1828, Skien Municipality, Norway |
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| died | May 23, 1906, Oslo, Norway |
| description | Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. |
| books | A Doll's House and Other Plays 1889 |
| children | Sigurd Ibsen, Hans Jacob Henriksen |
| movies | A Doll's House, Nora Helmer, An Enemy of the People, Hedda, Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler |
| quotations | The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. A forest bird never wants a cage. |
| information | Short biography of Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama. He is often referred to as the “father of prose drama” and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare.Ibsen was born in Skien, a small town in Telemark county, Norway. He was the second of five children born to Knud Ibsen (1797-1877), a well-to-do merchant, and Marichen Altenburg (1799-1869). His father’s ship-building firm had gone bankrupt in 1826, and the family had to sell their house and move to a cheaper quarter of the town. When he was eight Ibsen was sent to live with a local farmer and his family in the nearby village of Gjerpen. This period was later described as the happiest time of his life.In 1843 Ibsen was admitted to the Cathedral School in Skien, where he studied until 1846 (he always had a flair for languages, and in addition to his native Norwegian, he would later master Danish, Swedish, German, English, French and Italian). He had great difficulty adjusting to the discipline of the school, and was frequently involved in fistfights and other mischievous activities. In 1846 he left the school and began an apprenticeship with a local pharmacist, a man by the name of Ellefsen. Ibsen’s first play, Catiline, was published under the pseudonym Brynjolf Bjarme in 1849. This and a second play, The Warrior’s Barrow, were published together under the title Poems in 1852. Ibsen left Ellefsen’s pharmacy in 1851, and traveled to Grimstad to take up a position as an assistant pharmacist. It was here that he began work on his first draft of Brand. He also worked on a translation of Victor Hugo’s play Lucrezia Borgia.Ibsen’s first play to be performed on stage, The Feast at Solhaug, was produced in Bergen in 1855. It was a failure, and was not performed again. He then traveled to Christiania (now Oslo) and Copenhagen, returning to Grimstad in the summer of 1857. The following year Brand was staged in Bergen, but was again a failure. Ibsen then traveled to Rome and Dresden, and on his return to Christiania he found a publisher for his translation of Lucrezia Borgia. General Essay Structure for this Topic
Important informationSpouse: Suzannah Ibsen (m. 1858–1906) Plays: Puphejmo 1879, Peer Gynt 1867, Ghosts 1881 |
