Is Hedda Gabler a tragedy or a play about the problem of relationship between the Individual and the society?
The Individual and SocietyIbsen may be seen as a social dramatist in the sense that Hedda Gabler, like many of his greatest plays, is deeply engaged with the problems of the relationship between the individual and society. But he is not a social dramatist in the simpler sense that he is trying to find answers to remediable social ‘problems’. Rather, his great dramas, in various ways, deal with