Henrik Ibsen As Realist

Henrik Ibsen is a social realist with a sense of commitment. In all his social plays, He focuses the attention of his spectators on the remedies. He clothes his characters with flesh and blood. He makes them come out with the pressing social conventions and customs which fetter the freedom of the individuals in society. The catalogue of social ills in his early plays is an elaborate one. For Example, he writes about the fear of public disapproval, the adherence to outmoded social conventions, the hypocrisy of the press and the middle class, the fanatiscism of organized religion, the oppressive weight of majority practices. The dramatic tension within these plays emanates from the conflict between social being and the interior self-restriction versus liberation.