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Emile Durkheim and Henrik Ibsen were both products ofthe intellectual milieu that saw the birth ofsociology and the advent of an intellectual interestin the individual. Suicide, that most taboo oftopics, was examined in the work of both thinkers,and both concluded independently that it was the gorysymptom of societies that failed to balance the needsof the community and the individual. Durkheim'stheories about the three social causes of suicide canbe effectively applied to the suicides (both symbolicand literal) in Ibsen's prose corpus. The connectionbetween the two iconic thinkers, separated ingeographical distance but not in ideologies, revealsthat the tides of European thought had becomefundamentally concerned with exploring the balancebetween a person's fierce need for individuality, anda society's desperate need for internal cohesion.
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Hamilton Heather Elise Heather Elise Hamilton holds a PhD from the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara. She is an Assistant Professor in theTheatre department at Minnesota State University, and an adjunctlecturer in the Graduate English program at Plymouth StateUniversity. She is an active performer and director in the NHtheatre community.
