2.  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.

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

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

5.  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.

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

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

8.  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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