Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen Analysis

Symbols of Psychological Expression in Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler

H.Annshini Dr.S.Florence
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Department of English Department of English
Muslim Arts College Annamalai University
Thiruvithancode Annamalainagar
Kanyakumari

Henrik Johan Ibsen, an influential poet, a major 19th century Norwegian playwright, and theatre director, is generally regarded as one of the greatest and most influential dramatists in world literature. He is often referred as ‘the god father’ of modern drama and is one among the founders of modernism in the theatre. His works utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into conditions of life and issues of morality.

Ibsen’s plays display a virtual catalogue of failure in daily life in the profession in arts, in marriages, in friendships and in communication between the generations. During the winter of 1848 Ibsen wrote his first play Cateline. During 1863 he completed The Pretenders and in 1866 he wrote a dramatic epic poem Brand, which was followed

It can be a material object or a written sign used to represent something invisible. In writing, symbolism is the use of a word, a phrase, or a description, which represents a deeper meaning than the words themselves. The word symbol is derived from the Greek verb “symballe” which means “to throw together” and the noun “symbolon” gives the meaning ”mark” or “sign”. It is an object, animate or inanimate, that stands for or point to a reality beyond itself. In Literature, symbolism is used to provide meaning to the writing beyond what is actually being described. Ibsen’s contemporary dramas are known to be family dramas. Hedda Gabler (1890) is perhaps the most tragic of all Ibsen’s women and there are indications in the play that Ibsen also created her as