... audiences demonstrates his overwhelming influence in female empowerment. An inarguably feminist icon born of Ibsen's dramatic literature is Hedda Gabler. She is portrayed as enduring constant conflict between her desires and the desires of her patriarchal world. First, Hedda is "dominated by her father in her early life - his lasting presence is symbolized by the great portrait which hangs in the living room" (Walkington 64). The powerful influence of her father leads her ... experience. It was this "collective identification of female spectators with Ibsen's heroines [that] changed not...

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