The truth exposed in A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler"No other playwright has ever meant so much to the women of the stage," said Elizabeth Robins, the actress who played the title role in the English-language premiere of Hedda Gabler in London in 1891 (Farfan 60). Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and poet whose works are famous for revealing truths that society preferred to keep hidden. Ibsen was sensitive to women's issues and through his works advocated for women's rights, a controversial issue for a male writer in the 19th century. Although Ibsen alluded to the fact that he was not part of the women's movement, his courageous portrayal of women in their socially confined positions may earn him the title "feminist writer". In two of Ibsen's most famous works, A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler, the main characters are women who strive to be self-motivated beings. Because of the male-dominated society that dominates their lives, which resembles the world that women had to deal with at the time Ibsen created his works, the confined characters demonstrate their socially imposed roles. "Ibsen's Nora is not just a woman who champions women's liberation; she is much more. She embodies the comedy and tragedy of modern life," insisted Einar Haugen, a doyen of Scandinavian American studies, more than twenty years later , after feminism. it reemerged as an international movement (Templeton 111). Many people admire Ibsen for portraying Hedda and Nora as women capable of taking action and escaping the conventional roles expected of them. Ibsen uses the role of motherhood to show the battles women have to fight involving their desires to be independent individuals and direction. .... half of the sheet ...... Ibsen's Companion. Ed. James McFarlane. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. Garton, Janet “Ibsen: The Middle Plays.” In James McFarlane (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen. Cambridge University Press. 1994Goodman, Lizbeth In James McFarlane (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen. Cambridge University Press. 1994Hemmer, Bjorn. "The playwright Henrik Ibsen." http://odin.dep.no/ud/nornytt/ibsen.htmlIbsen, Henrik. Hedda Gabler. Four main comedies. Trans. Giacomo Arup. Ed. James McFarlane. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.Saari, Sandra. In James McFarlane (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen. Cambridge University Press. 1994 Tammany, Jane Ellert. Theatrical aesthetics and dramatic art of Henrik Ibsen. New York: Philosophical Library, 1980. Published in Theater Journal (December 1982), Templeton, Joan. Ibsen's Women. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.