That he was labeled an enemy of the people. Upon reflection, he turned that accusation against himself into the title of still another play. In the wild duck, some of the most severe attacks are directed against the socalled idealists. Though ibsens subjects contemporary corruption in clergy and business, sexual inequality, prudishness and other victorian unmentionables were considered dangerous, his method of presentation was conventional. He used melodramatic devices, usually making quite explicit the division between good characters and bad. To make deceptively simplelooking plays, he wrote what was called the wellmade play, that is, a play so carefully constructed that almost every line and object turned out to have some important use in a latter part of the play. It was said that if the heroine of a wellmade play coughs in the first act, she will surely die of tuberculosis by the end. If a gun is handled, it will surely be used. There are no casual deliveries of mail. A letter wil
Are directed against the socalled idealists. Though ibsens subjects contemporary corruption in clergy and business, sexual inequality, prudishness another victorian unmentionables were considered dangerous, his method of presentation was conventional. He used melodramatic devices, usually making quite explicit the division between good characters and bad. To make deceptively simplelooking plays, he wrote what was called the wellmade play, that is, a play so carefully constructed that almost every line and object turned out to have some important use in a latter part of the play. It was said that if the heroine of a wellmade play coughs in the first act, she will surely die of tuberculosis by the end. If a gun is handled, it will surely be used. There are no casual deliveries of mail. A letter will bring joy to some, destruction to others. No one will merely observe the beauty of a piece of jewelry. It will surely turn up later as part of someones effort to conceal the past. Ibsens audi
I see. Youre just trying to be funny again. No. No, no, no, no. Im in no mood for that. Besides, i know all about it the amount of rhetoric hes brought up about these two soul mothers of his. But i dont think he has much to thank them for. Ekdals misfortune is that in his own little circle hes always been considered a shining light. And dont you think he is . Deep down within, i mean. Well, ive never seen any sign of it. Whether his father thought so, it could well be. The dear lieutenants always been a bit of a blockhead. Hes always been a man with the spirit of a child. Thats what you dont understand. Yes. Yes, yes. All right. All right then. When our dear sweet little hjalmar began as a student of sorts, he was immediately regarded by his fellow students as a man with a brilliant future. He was handsome and quite captivating, pink and white the sort all the girls fall for, and because he was the sentimental kind and there was something appealing in his voice and because he learned t
Have you any views on the spiritual turmoil going on in Hjalmar Ekdal . Im damned if i can see any spiritual turmoil going on in him. What . In a crisis like this when his whole life has been put on a completely new basis . How do you suppose a personality like hjalmars personality . Him . He never showed any signs of anything as abnormal as a personality. It was all thoroughly cleared out of him, root and branch, when he was still a lad. That i can assure you. That would seem very strange after being brought up with such affectionate care as he was. By those two crazy, hysterical maiden aunts of his, you mean . Let me tell you, they were women who never shut their eyes to the claim of the ideal. They were i see. Youre just trying to be funny again. No. No, no, no, no. Im in no mood for that. Besides, i know all about it, the amount of rhetoric hes brought up about these two soul mothers of his. But i dont think he has much to thank them for. Ekdals misfortune is that in his own little
Now, your host, mr. Jose ferrer. Henrik ibsen, the author of the wild duck, was called idealist, skeptic, reformer, even pornographer. Audiences of the 1880s were shocked by topics which wellbred people avoided. In an age which prized gentility, ibsen was scandalously provocative. He would not allow the appearance of respectability to conceal truth. At the same time, he recognized the danger of such revelations. A few years before the wild duck was written, he had aroused so much public hostility against the frankness of his play ghosts that he was labeled an enemy of the people. Upon reflection, he turned that accusation against himself into the title of still another play. In the wild duck, some of the most severe attacks are directed against the socalled idealists. Though ibsens subjects contemporary corruption in clergy and business, sexual inequality, prudishness and other victorian unmentionables were considered dangerous, his method of presentation was conventional. He used melo