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THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE MODERN DRAMA
THE SCANDINAVIAN DRAMA
HENRIK IBSEN
IN a letter to George Brandes, shortly after
the Paris Commune, Henrik Ibsen wrote
concerning the State and political liberty:
"The State is the curse of the
individual. How has the national strength of Prussia
been purchased? By the sinking of the individual
in a political and geographical formula. ... The
State must go! That will be a revolution which
will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of
the State, set up in its place spontaneous action,
and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only
thing that makes for unity, and you will start the
elements of a liberty which will be something
worth possessing."
The State was not the only bête noire of Henrik
Ibsen. Every other institution which, like the
State, rests upon a lie, was an iniquity to him.
Uncompromising demolisher of all false idols and
dynamiter of all social shams and hypocrisy, Ibsen
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