Holy Marriage Archetype in Ibsen's plays With the analysis of Pillars of society and Rosmersholm

One of the troubles of theatre critics is Recognition of tragedy elements and structure in tragedies. This essay tries to investigate the critical analysis of Ibsen’s modern tragedies based on methods and approaches of archetypal criticism. It seems that evaluation of family and marriage in Ibsen’s play is a road to recognition problems of Ibsen’s tragedy elements; because the main acts of Ibsen’s dramas are on family bases. So by discovering love triangle in his plays, with archetypal criticism, this essay tries to investigate the playwright’s criterions in recognizing the love triangle and discover the reason of tragic action in choosing the hero. In spite of contradiction illusion between realism and myth, this essay recognizes patterns and criterions of holy marriage in Scandinavian myths and patterns and criterions of pagan marriages in modern and Christianity marriage and adapting that with love triangles of Ibsen’s plays and shows the dialectic of pagan and Christianity of Ibsen’s plays and by that could analyzes the structural elements in these two plays. Elements of Ibsen’s play in Pillars of society and Rosmersholm, with that dialectic.