Ibsen creates businessmen who seem to be pillars of society but who are in reality denying the liberal ideals they seem to represent, while Ibsen's women and intellectuals often hold these same ideals in high regard. Ibsen In Ibsen, the modern tragic hero and the modern tragic conflict are to be found in the bourgeois individual--often a woman--who rebels against society and tradition. Ibsen develops a type of dramatic realism and creates a pattern of dialogue which combines the ease of daily speech with the urgency of the drama. In A Doll's House, Ibsen challenges the assumptions about the place of women in society and finds that the confinement of women has produced a situation under which men also cannot be truly free, though they may not realize it. Nora is a woman who has an understanding that extends beyond the limited education she has been allowed to have by her father and husband. Her ch
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