Henrik Ibsen was one of the first writers to use his plays to comment and analyse controversial social topics of the Victorian society. He used his writing as a way to express his belief that societies conditioning was holding individual people hostage. He made it his mission in life to "inspire individuals to freedom and independence." Ibsen's distrust for society began when his family became socially disgraced due to poverty. His contempt for those controlling society advanced as he was swept up in the Revolution. He adopted new ideas of personal freedom against the monarch. These ideas are present in many of his plays primarily A Doll House. The play was revolutionary as the hero was a middle-class woman who rebels against her controlling husband so...