Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsenwas a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, The Master Builder and John Gabriel Borkman. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth20 March 1828
CitySkien, Norway
CountryNorway
A woman cannot be herself in modern society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess female conduct from a male standpoint.
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
The man-at-arms is the only man.
The strongest men are the most alone.
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.