Henrik Johan Ibsen is kinda Cool!!

Thursday, March 8, 2012

       Hi everyone! My name is Nabeehah Sackoor but everyone I know calls me Nabi. Well, I like almost everyone  in my English class (just kidding I like everyone). My favorite short story is "The Cabuliwallah", I absolutely loved it. It shows a real mistake that everyone makes when they haven't seen someone in a long time. I can totally relate to that story.
        Henrik Johan Ibsen was born on March 20th, 1828. Sometimes Ibsen is referred  to as "the father" of modern theater. He lived in Skien, Norway. The plays or skits he wrote were supposedly scandalous in his era. Ibsen also wrote around about 300 poems. His era was the 19th century in which he was a theater director and Norwegian playwright. He was born to Knud and Marichen Ibsen. His father was a merchant but his family went through poverty because his father's business was not going to well. His family moved to a rundown farm near there, which is where his imagination grew. He was able to read, paint and perform magic tricks. But at 15 he dropped out of school to work. But he wrote his first play Catiline while apprenticed to a chemist. He went to University and kept on writing. He was also given a job as a writer and manager for a Norwegian Theatre in Bergen. At the end of his time he suffered many strokes and couldn't write anymore, which is very sad. In Norwegian he said "To the contrary." were his last words. Ibsen will be missed but everyone still loves his plays and poems. They speak the truth. He is said to be the second most popular of playwrights next to Shakespeare.
       A doll's house is the title of the play we are going to read. However after reading Ibsen's bio I think there is going to be a lot of scandals. But in a doll's house the dolls are controlled by the child or whoever is playing with the dolls. So I thought the play would be about controlling people but you never know there probably is controlling people. This play is gonna be very good.
Links:
 http://www.online-literature.com/ibsen/, http://www.biography.com/people/henrik-ibsen-37014.