Ramba uchiverenga ndima iyi - Akamanikidzwa kuzviriritira pashure pokunge baba vake vaparara mune zvoupfumi, munguva yenhamo yemari yenyika, Ibsen akaenda kuGrimstad somudzidzi wemishonga. Ikoko akazvigadzirira iye amene nokuda kweyunivhesiti uye akaedza nemhando dzakasiyana-siyana dzenhetembo. Achiri kudzidza, akazviwana achinyura mu"mashoko aCatiline", hurukuro dzakakurumbira dzaCicero dzaipesana nomutongi akasarudzwa Catiline uye rangano yake yokuparadza republic. Ibsen akasarudza uyu mupanduki somusoro wenyaya wenhamburiko yake yokutanga, achipedza "Catiline" muna 1849. Ibsen anotaura mumashoko okutanga edhisheni yechipiri (1875) kuti akafuridzirwa zvikuru nemamiriro ezvinhu ezvematongerwe enyika epanguva iyoyo eEurope, uye kuti akatsigira kumukira kweMagyar
mukurwisana neumambo hweHabsburg. Anotsanangura kuti nhau yaCatiline yakanga ine fariro chaiyo kwaari, nemhaka yokuti ""kunopiwa mienzaniso mishomanene yavanhu venhau, vane ndangariro dzave dziri chose chose muzvivako zvavakundi vavo, kupfuura Catiline"". Nokudaro, Catiline anogona kuraviwa somumwe waIbsen ane nhamo (uye anonetsa) magamba, pamwe chete naBrand naGregers Werle.