| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 戲劇研究所 === 92 === Truth and Falsehood in Ibsen’s Five Plays
Abstract
Ibsen’s creative life is usually divided into three periods. The problem plays created in the middle period have won him great fame and exerted tremendous influence.
Ibsen reveals a strong dialectical tendency in the five plays under discussion. While attacking contemporary social institutions and raising questions, he allows his characters to oscillate between “obeying truth” or “following a living lie” to disclose the truth and falsehood in the human mind. The cross-debates between truth and falsehood start from The Pillars of Society, are obviously intensified in A Doll’s House, Ghosts and An Enemy of the People, but develop in an opposite direction in The Wild Duck.
This thesis focuses its discussion on the theme of “truth and falsehood” in the five aforementioned plays. It approaches them textually, humanistically, sociologically and psychologically to explore Ibsen’s central concern.
Keywords: Henrik Ibsen, truth, falsehood, problem play, realism.
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