Essays on 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…

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…

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…

Hedda Gabler, By Henrik Ibsen Essay, Research Paper HEDDA GABLER – LONG ESSAY Henrik Ibsen portrays a microcosm of 19th century Norse society in his drama Hedda Gabler. Hedda, the supporter, exhibits a mixture of masculine and feminine traits due to her alone upbringing under General Gabler and the societal mores imposed upon her. However,…

Kevin Tejada Professor Day Intro to Literary Studies 2 April 2013 A Doll House Essay 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…

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. …

Rebekah’s presentation summarized how women in this society are expected to be nice and kind, and how Hedda contrasts to that expectation. She effectively developed Hedda’s character through the different techniques that Henrik Ibsen applied to her dialogue, such as when Hedda and her husband Tesman are arguing about how Tesman thinks Hedda is indifferent…

The Theme of Marriage from A Doll’s House The play A Doll’s House features marriage as one of its theme. It talks about the ups and downs of marital life and how it fails in the case of the couple Nora and Torvald. There are elements of marriage that they failed to meet which ended…

Translation TroubleIn the play “A Doll House” the main character, Nora, is in a situation where she is caused to act, emotionally and physically, as a doll to please her husband. Nora has to be very sneaky and conniving in order to be perfect and talked down to by her husband. The translation of this…

TITLE : People may argue that George, Eilert, and Judge Brack are responsible for Hedda’s death, but in reality it is the fault of Hedda’s society. I’ve chosen this statement for several reasons. Ibsen’s character, Hedda Gabler, represents the women of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Hedda stands the issues of self-worth and the deflated…