Henrik Johan Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway. He began his career as a pharmacist and later as a theatre director and playwright. His early plays were often based on Norwegian sagas, but over time he developed a more realistic and psychological style. Plays such as 'A Doll's House', 'Ghosts', 'An Enemy of the People', and 'Hedda Gabler' examine the hypocrisies of bourgeois society, the conflicts between the individual and society, and the pressures faced by women. Ibsen is celebrated for his mastery of dialogue construction and his ability to create complex and multifaceted characters. He died in Kristiania (present-day Oslo), Norway.
Poems List
I’ve only to pick up a newspaper and I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines. Over the whole country there must be ghosts, as numerous as the sands of the sea. And here we are, all of us, abysmally afraid of the light.
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If I’m ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Our house has never been anything but a play-room. I have been your doll wife, just as at home I was Daddy’s doll child. And the children in turn have been my dolls. I thought it was fun when you came and played with me, just as they thought it was fun when I went and played with them. That’s been our marriage, Torvald.
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Turn to the Jewish nation, the nobility of the human race. How has it preserved itself—isolated, poetical—despite all the barbarity from without? Because it had no state to burden it. Had the Jewish nation remained in Palestine, it would long since have been ruined in the process of construction, like all the other nations.
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