Ibsen-who knew I'd love reading his stuff

I've been reading some Henrik Ibsen for my guided study course of Studies in Drama.
I gotta say that I really enjoy the two plays that I've read of his. I just might
read all his plays since I'm using a book that has his entire collected works.

I read Lady from the Sea first. It kept on reminding me of Frankenstein strangely
enough. Mostly because the main character Ellida was haunted by the memory of her
first love only named "the Stranger" who's really only described as a man with a glint in his eye. In my mind he was like the Creature in Frankenstein, talking in monotone issuing ultimatums of choices. Ellida is like Victor Frankenstein in that she's haunted by her apparent "marriage" to this stranger. A personal horror story of your past coming to haunt you set in the middle of summertime.

I also read Hedda Gabler. This one was mostly about how the protagonist of Hedda felt trapped in her new marriage. She also hid many aspects of her character from her new husband who's an intellectual and aspiring professor that seems to be constantly caught up in his work. My reading of it was that Hedda is a social manipulator of the highest degree. Made me think of a 19th century Regina George from Mean Girls. This one read like a dark comedy that ends with 2 deaths.

The beauty of Ibsen's work is that you can read pretty much all his characters positively and negatively at the same time. You can read them as victims and victimizers. I made the comment during one of the discussions with my prof for this course that with Ibsen

People generally mean well but they all have their own agendas.