Ibsenian Bildung From Passivity to Constructivity

Abstract

The study falls under the banner of Reader-Response Criticism. Art elicits myriad newlineresponses: questioning, arguing, summarising, and/or provoking. This thesis is an newlineinterpretive response to the select plays of Ibsen. It is yet another reading, a novel newlineinterpretation, supported, validated and justified using selective choice of texts to map newlinethe concealed patterns of social growth in Ibsen s oeuvre. newline