1. Community in Ibsen-the defining element in an Individividual
... the plays like Oedipus and that is how community becomes the defining element in an individual's life. In these plays we find community acting more or less like an umbrella, engulfing everything under it. It creates an environment, a shadow. What community does is that it partakes the individuality of an individual who is a part of it. Thus it assigns him role making him aware ... coming to realize that their ideal home including their marriage and parenting has been a fabrication for the sake of society. Now Helmer being brought up in the same society is an example of a stereotypical h...
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