Ibsen is a famous Norwegian dramatist, the founder of modern European drama, but also recognized by the world as a great dramatist, he has the title of "father of Modern Drama in Europe", his works "Doll's House", "Enemy of the People" and other works are eye-catching works, and have been active in the theater stage around the world for nearly a hundred years.
It has been said that Ibsen, like Shakespeare, did not belong to any one era and country, but to all times and nations. Ibsen had a great influence on many Chinese intellectuals, such as Hu Shi, Lu Xun, Guo Moruo, Cao Yu, Mao Dun, etc., especially Lu Xun, Hu Shi and Guo Moruo, Ibsen brought them a certain creative inspiration, and their novels have rebellious petty-bourgeois female figures. Guo Moruo said that now China's Nala should be like Qiu Jin, serving the country and the people and moving toward socialism. During the period of the New Culture Movement, Hu Shi also strongly advocated "Ibsenism", that is, rebellion against tradition, rebellion against secular prejudices, and the ideological concept of personal liberation and advocating individualism, which shows that Ibsen also has a wide range of positive influence and spread in China.
Ibsen was born into a wealthy merchant family, but the good times were short-lived, and when he was 8 years old, his father's business went bankrupt and the family plummeted. Ibsen went out to work at the age of 15, and when Ibsen was 22, he applied for university but was rejected, but he devoted his life to literary creation and newspaper work, and he wrote a total of 25 plays in various genres, including plays, poems, letters and literary prose, and his masterpiece "Doll's House" is famous all over the world.
Ibsen's works express sympathy for the poor and working people, sympathy for the weak, criticism of the hypocritical and degenerate family and hypocrites, and his works express many social issues, such as family, marriage, love, ideals, life, and so on. Ibsen's wife is an important inspiration and source of his creation, the use of marriage themes in Ibsen's works, the description of marital problems, the light and dark side of marriage relations and married life, and many female topics constitute the characteristics of Ibsen's creation.
Nala in "Doll's House" is a typical character, the heroine Nala forged her father's signature to borrow money from others to treat her husband's illness, the husband knew the truth, afraid of affecting his reputation, very angry, angry that his wife was shamelessly inferior, after that, the creditor returned the IOU to Nala under the influence of Nala's girlfriend, and Nala's husband changed his face and reversed his attitude toward his wife. Nala sees through her husband's selfishness and the inequality between the husband and wife, and he is not willing to be her husband's doll and run away from home. Engels once said that Nala was the representative of the "Petty bourgeois women of Norway" with free will and an independent spirit.
Like Nala, there are many characters with distinct personalities in Ibsen's plays, most of Ibsen's characters have a strong sense of mission and feelings, they continue to explore for ideals, love, self, dreams, and pursuits, and there are also misguided people, there are also confused people, there are also idealists, although they are individuals, but they are symbolic and can reflect the group portraits of the times.
He died on 23 May 1906 and was buried in the Norwegian parliament and from all walks of life. Today is the 115th anniversary of Ibsen's death, let us enjoy Ibsen's ten famous words together and feel Ibsen's wise thoughts.
I'm an independent individual, just like you. - Ibsen
Friends are the sunshine in life. - Ibsen
If you doubt yourself, then your footing is really unstable. - Ibsen
The answer to what a person's first duty is is simple: don't hide yourself. - Ibsen
The majority is always wrong, and the minority is not always right. - Ibsen
Every life has a responsibility, and our fault lies not in the evil we do, but in the good that we do not do. - Ibsen
A thousand words leave an impression less profound than one of its actions. - Ibsen
Money can be the shell of many things, but it is not the fruit inside. - Ibsen
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom are the pillars of society. - Ibsen
The strongest people in the world are those who stand alone on their own. - Ibsen