Born: March 20, 1838, Skien, Norway Died: May 23, 1906, Christiania, Norway Norwegian dramatic and lyric poet.
He is called "the father of modern drama" because his extremely influential plays dealing with domestic life dealt with some of the most shocking issues of the day - venereal disease, a wife abandoning her husband and children to discover her own worth as a human being, suicide, etc. He also wrote a few verse dramas, among them "Peer Gynt". However, Edvard Griegs music for the original 1876 production is now performed much more often than is the play.
In 1846 he had an illegitimate child by Else Sophie Jensdatter, a servant.
On December 23rd 1859 his son Sigurd was born.
Dubbed one of "the four greats" (de fire store) in Norwegian literature, together with Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson, Alexander Kielland and Jonas Lie.
Not only is he considered the father of modern drama, but his grandson Tancred Ibsen, would grow up to be perhaps the greatest Norwegian of his generation in the modern art of movie-making...
His play, "Hedda Gabler" at the Writers Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2014 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Large Play Production.
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
To live is to war with trolls.
A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life,I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what religion is. . . . When I am away from all this, and am alone, I will look into that matter too. I will see if what the clergyman said is true, or at all events if it is true for me.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
People so easily forget their past selves.
To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind,I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, that I must try and become one.
You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I pretended to. I am really not quite sure which - I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other.
When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls.
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.
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women have done!,The strongest men are the most alone.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that ‘walks’ in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sands of the sea. And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they ofiron or of gold.
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
A minority may be right a majority is always wrong.
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
A minority may be right and a majority is always wrong.
The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Yes you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to knock at my door - to make an end of Halvard Solness.
A forest bird never wants a cage.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.
The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. .
