Newspapers in Two Ibsen Plays: Some Sociological and Political Issues

Abstract

Though Henrik Ibsen is mostly given to be a champion of freedom in general and freedom of expression in particular, we find him checking related matters in much further ramifications and dialectics. Two of his plays give us scope of marking and assessing his closer looks at newspaper, for example, in general and two newspapers in particular. The plays are An Enemy of the People and Rosmersholm. The newspapers are the People’s Herald and The Lighthouse. Ibsen’s expository looks at these exemplify his characteristic manner of probing into and presenting truths in very revealing divisions and tensions. He is found to be closely informed about the political economy and such other motivators of different components of society and culture.