 Realistic Drama  For the first half of Ibsen's writing career he wrote mainly poetic and historical dramas, but his realistic plays.  Twelve plays of modern life is what made him famous.

 Compared to TV soap operas.  He writes to awe the audience and grab their attention.

 He shapes his plays to bring out certain large, archetypal conflicts and presences.  He overlooks small thing to do big things

 Ibsen is considered the father of modern realistic drama  Ibsen's plays attack society’s values and dealt with unconventional subjects within the form of the well-made plot.

 His plays are loaded with multiple meanings.  They portray enormous issues in miniature.

 Ibsen's method was not to imitate Norwegian reality but to reinvent it as a metaphoric and historic space the could never actually exist.

 A Dool House is set around spiritual rebirth  Includes tragic plays that are very over dramatic  He uses manipulations of reality.

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