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ok so real quick, not Henrik Ibsen
We have to tell this story about Ibsen, trust me. okay so basically, we have Ibsen's dad. Knud....a beautiful name by the way. Anyway, his dad, aka Henrik's grandpa, aka let's name him Johan, perished at sea before Knud was even 1, so his mom remarries this other guy (IDK who this dude is.) Ole Paus, sells one of the houses Johan owned and buys the rising outside Skien (nowadays a cool Henrik Ibsen landmark) and this is where Ibsen grows up with some of his half-baked half-siblings. -
also not Henrik Ibsen
Nope, we aren't talking about his child's life or something. I guess, anyway, his dad. He uh has the "burghership of Skien." I have no clue what that's about, but I guess having the burger of skunk lets him open a luxurious timber business with his younger brother messed around for a bit, then uh, guess what? He marries his stepfather's niece, aka Henrik's mom, and then moves to rising. Next...... -
the father of realism: born of the high and mighty
Henrik Ibsen opens his eyes for the first time in Skien of Bratsburg (technically Norway) in the arms of a wealthy and influential merchant family. -
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born to the rich: born to arrogance
In a later autobiography, Henrik stated that his young life was wonderful and that it was constant balls, diner parties, and visits from people he didn't know. However, according to those around him, he was highly cunning and malicious, as well as introverted. The daughter of his neighbor, whom he was supposedly fond of, even mentioned that when he grew up, while he was handsome, no one dared marry him due to his sheer malice. -
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.....meanwhile, NOT HENRIK IBSEN
Back to Knud, there's a problem: he lost profits and had to sell one of his houses. oh, that's nothing to rich man, right? Normally, yes, but in this unfortunate case, it was an omen of what was to come. In 1843 Knud's wealth had decreased so much that he had to move his family to a house his younger brother owned (remember him from the Burger of Skunk thing?) anyways in the 1850s Knud really fell off from then till the end of his life he had to rely on his Younger Richer Cooler brothers. -
OMG a world event, I've been blessed
If you haven't found out from the title I have no knowledge of Norwegian Dutch history and am struggling to find anything (I forgot they even existed until I did research for this project) but anyways for since forever Denmark owned Norway but in 1814 Norway said "I thought Denmark was a place in America or something" and Denmark started a war but Norway survived anyways they were unstable due to having no currency and stuff so they got Sweden to help but while it was good long term it cost them -
Welcome to Grimstad Henrik Ibsen the...Pharmacist?
Yeah, no, he was going to be a medical professional at some point but gave up after failing the entrance exam -
Hans Jacob Hendrichsen Birkedalen
I swear this isn't a self-insert. He just had "liaison" with a girl named Sophie and a gremlin named Jacob spawned in, either way Henrik ain't got time to be a responsible father so he just pays child support and buggers off -
Finally the important part
okay so at the age of 22, his first play was released the tragedy catilina which was published as Brynjolf Bjarme but later used with its proper name and creditted to Henrik. so the play is about a noble named Catilina (just his last name this a guy keep that in mind) who, hear me out, is torn between his love for his wife (Aurelia) and the priestess of a VIRGIN GOD (Furia). okay you heard me out now you can go regret it in the corner -
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Inspiration and thoughts: det norske theatre and Henrik wergeland aka world events for the rubrik :)
so for a few years Ibsen wrote tons of plays which all did terribly 100 % rotten tomatoes vibe but he did gain some experience and inspiration at this time. He took up work at Det Norske Theatre and read a bunch of books from this other Hendrik guy who was super successful and told Norwegian folk tales he's like the only thing in Norway that isn't directly tied to Ibsen but still inspired him -
Christiania Theatre
according to my sources he was already here at some point earlier on the timeline but I don't know when. Either way he returns here and becomes the creative director of the Christiania Theatre. -
wait he got married?
Suzannah Thoresen uh marries him...uh I was going to make a quip about how they said he was malicious but its 10:44 I need to lie down. -
Sigurd
The father of realism is now a father ( ignore Hans Jacob he doesn't exist) anyways Henrik is really poor right now and starts to not like being in Norway at this very moment -
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welcome to Sorrento Henrik Ibsen
Henrik moves to Italy in a form of self exile he spends the next 27 years moving between Italy and Germany occasionally showing back up in Norway -
brand PT. 1
so basically...this play is too long. anyways there's this guy named brand he is a priest with a all or nothing attitude. he climbs a mountain shames some people including Gerd (she'll be important later). then he thinks humans are lazy so he goes back to the valley where he was born, its basically a slum but he can fix it by riding this boat and Agnes joins him (who?) anyways they do it and at the end of the act his mom says he grew up in a glacier. anyways brand marries Agnes and has a son -
Soren Kierkegaard
A friend compares Henrik's work too Kiekegaard's work and he gets angry but eventually gets over it and thinks rationally -
Brand PT. 2
So anyways brand lives in a cold place I guess because his son is actively dying from the cold and everyone tells him to leave and visit his dying mother but he won't do it until she donates all her money before she dies then brand and the doctor play 23d word chess and Brand stays and gets his son killed. then he makes a mega church and finds out Gerd (remember her) is his sister then he makes everyone angry by throwing a key gets chased to an ice church Gerd kills a bird and Brand dies via roc -
Peer Gynt PT. 1
Met Peer, Peer's dad, was famous and wealthy, but Peer wasted his fortune lazing around after his death. He then leaves his wife and kidnaps the bride of a nearby wedding. After doing horrible things to the bride in the mountains he gets banished. He then runs into some cowgirls gets very intoxicated and runs into a rock before he does anything else. He then enters a dream space and meets the troll princess (who is very pretty) and he can marry her if he becomes a troll but denies the offer. -
Peer Gynt PT. 2
The troll princess then magically becomes pregnant and her dad the king blames Peer, Peer didn't do this and says so, but the king says he's wrong because he thought about it so it happened. The king and Peer then play 26D chess then something called a Boyg shows up and Peer has a match with him too and then...Peer wakes up. He then builds a hut and meets up with solveig (whom I didn't mentioned) then his mom dies. He travels in grief ends up in Egypt becomes a cult god and later meets real god. -
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Emperor and Galilean
act one- prince Julian is confused about religion so he joins a cult centered around the ancient Greeks (he doesn't like it anymore) he then visits a mystic who gives him visions, he then lobbies to become emperor, he succeeds. He then becomes Pegan fails terribly as an emperor and gets killed by Persians. -
the death of the mother of the father
His mom dies -
death of the father of the father
death of the father -
the pillars of society
this play is about what seems to be a semi-self insert of Henrik named Bernick who lied 15 years ago to save his crumbling business in the present the man he blamed for all his failure comes back to town and after severe peer pressure and almost getting his son killed Bernick tells the truth to everyone and suffers no consequences -
A doll's house
Nora takes out a loan to move her and her husband to Italy because he is sick (women can't make unauthorized checks) the guy who accepted her check blackmails her to convince her husband (the blackmailer's boss) to not fire him. She fails so the blackmailer sends a letter to her husbands locked mail book. Nora does everything she can to stall for time and is just in time for the blackmailer to send a second letter clearing her name. But turns out her husband is a narcissist so she leaves him. -
Ghosts
an ill man wants to marry his mother's maid unfortunately (and not to his awareness) she is his half sister, a church goes up in flames the mother reveals the truth leading to the maid running away and the man asks that if he becomes to ill for his mother to end his life early and the play ends on the mother struggling with this decision -
an enemy of the people
A physician finds that the local bath is totally being poisoned as a side effect of the next door tannery and tells the town hoping to be regarded as a hero but everyone likes the tannery so they cancel him on twitter and throw rocks at his house and that's how the play ends -
the wild duck
Greg returns to his home town from an exile and meets up with his best friend. Unfortunately he finds out way to much like his homie is going crazy his dad got someone imprisoned for his crime and that the homies kid is his half brother (his dad is a bad guy). Unfortunately the homie takes forever to find out because Greg never straight up says it just alluding to it then Greg alludes to the daughter that she should kill her pet duck to make up but misunderstands Greg and kills herself instead. -
Rosmersholm
Rosmer's wife commits suicide but her friend still lives in his mansion and they fall in love. Unfortunately Rosmer is an influential man so people use his love to cancel him on twitter. This drives him man making him think he lead his wife to kill herself but his new lover confesses the truth (she totally convinced his wife to kill herself but now feels guilty because she loves Rosmer) so they both decide they should kill themselves in the same river his wife did instead of continuing living. -
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler is chilling with her husband but then his old rival shows up and out succeeds him in their field of work, to fix this Hedda steals his life's work while he was drunk and tells him to kill himself (he does) unfortunately she handed him the gun so the sheriff finds out so she shoots herself in the face to avoid consequences, play ends on her husband and his rivals wife finding her dead. -
the master builder
a lady gaslights an architect she met once 10 years ago into building her a house finds out he has a fear of heights and convinces him to climb to the top of the building and- on never mind he already fell of the roof and died. she gets a free house :D -
when we dead awaken
The FINAL PLAY of Henrik Ibsen. There is man and his wife at a resort, this man encounters an old acquaintance of his and falls in love leaves his wife who goes on to chill with a hunter dude and she is so happy she sings a song, unfortunately the man and his lover are on a nearby mountain and the song triggers an avalanche killing both of them -
the Death of the father of realism
the day before his death someone asks his caregiver if he is okay she says yes but Henrik says no and he was right because he died 24 hours later -
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The era of gold diamonds and starless philosophy
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sources pt. 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Dead_Awaken
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catiline_(play)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_(play)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_Gynt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_and_Galilean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillars_of_Society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Doll%27s_House
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_(play)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enemy_of_the_People -