Diagnosis And Prescription In Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts And Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara

Abstract

Abstract

As it is often the case in many fields of study, a master is not known except through his follower(s).The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it aims at demonstrating that the younger Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950) was a true disciple of the elderly Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen(1828-1906) and secondly, that the former was not only a mere imitator but he was as well, a provider of alternative solutions to some of the issues raised by his master. Put differently, this inquiry sets out to show that Henrik Ibsen submitted social issues to debate to which his follower-George Bernard Shaw suggested practical solutions.