The faces of feminine devotion in Ibsen's theatre

Abstract

The theme of my thesis is the sacrifice of female characters in some of Ibsen’s plays. The questions that I want to ask are the following: Why do these heroines sacrifice their lives and what does their sacrifice consist of and is there any connection between the character of these heroines and their sacrifice? Certainly the heroines are different from each other in the same way as the structure of the plot of the plays is. Between the good and faithful Agnes from Brand and the evil Hedda Gabler from the homonymous play, there is a great variety of female characters who are Eve’s descendants. Catching a glimpse, one can notice that there are more reliable and steadfast women who are typical of Ibsen’s plays. (...)