Metropolis and Modernity

Henrik Ibsen: The Father of Modernism in Theartre Modernism in itself is a broader term it is a movement that along with cultural trends and changes brought transformation in modern society in late 19th and early 20th centuries. Modernism explored with the growth of industrialization with growth of city, societies rejecting the religious belief and enlightenment thinking. Henrik Ibsen brings out the examined realities that lay behind many facades it was a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality. Ibsen is often called as “the father of realism” and founder of modernism in theatre. Many of his works received prestige including ‘A doll’s house ranked as truly great playwright a profound poetic dramatist the best since Shakespeare. Rank, deadly pessimistic, evil to be deprecated, a disease which is beyond imagination referred to describe the work of the man who swept modernism into theatre his life was not to envy. We can see a...