Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen was born at a time when social and political injustice were either avoided or ignored. During the 1870's, the Realism movement which attempts to reflect social problems of 19th and 20th century, spread towards Norway. Inspired by conventions of realism, Ibsen developed his realist plays to support these growing realist ideas. All his important plays (A Doll's House, Ghost, Pillars of Society, Hedda Gabler) voiced Ibsen's attempts to allow the audience …
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…iticised and resented. However, as more people began to accept realism and face the existing problems in their lives, Ibsen's work developed and made him artistically, socially and financially successful. Though some of his themes like role of women may not be entirely relevant to us today, we must remember that it is partially because of him and his courageous way of facing existing problems that fortunately ruled out the relevance of those issues today.