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Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen is now recognized as the "Father of Realism" and led the European Modernist movement. He was a poet and a playwright who grew up in Norway. During his adolescence his father went through a difficult period in which he had to file bankruptcy because he lost all of his money. This had many negative effects upon Ibsen and his father was much crueler to his family after the bankruptcy. His father was considered a tyrant who was difficult on his wife and children. The way that the father treated Henrik and his family definitely had an influence on his work as he began producing his poetry and other writings.

Many of his works included female figures that were somehow abused and then later turn into heroic figures. Many people this attribute his perspective to the frustrations that he felt with his family as he grew up as he developed in his child hood. There are many other signs in Ibsen's characters that were influenced by his child hood as well. There is little question that the resentment that Ibsen felt towards his father and his family situation was a source of inspiration in his work. Yet many of his initial works were not considered that great. Rather it took much practice before he perfected his writing skills.

When Isben was into his late thirties, his work really began to take shape. The use of tragic elements with the realism of European Modernism developed to more advanced stages and Isben was financially compensated for this as well. He spent some time in a self-imposed exile to Italy and Germany at which point he introduced negative social commentary into his works such as A Doll's House which portrayed a great sense of realism.

The plot of the A Doll's House focus on different power dynamics that exist between married couples and their families as well as other types of relationships as well. This particular story is about the story of the Helmer family which consisted on Torvald, the husband, Nora, the wife, and their three young children who are cared for by the family's nanny. Isben sets the stage as the dominant patriarchal figure in the story. Nora has a frivolous shopping habit in which Isben supports with the family's money.

Nora also makes a personal loan to a man named Krogstad, which was the beginning of the end for the Helmer marriage. Some people feel that this is much different in the themes of classical tragedies in which the figures have more control over their fate. Isben portrays the domineering Torvald as someone who called is daughter an odd little soul who is constantly trying to get money from her which represents Isben's resentment with his own family growing up.