The Wild Duck, by Henrik Ibsen
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The Wild Duck, by Henrik Ibsen
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The Wild Duck is an 1884 play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Guided by a fervent strain of idealism, Gregers endeavors to reveal the truth to Hjalmar, and thereby free him from the mendacity which surrounds him. To that end, Gregers takes up residence in the Ekdal Home. He meddles in the affairs of a strange family, producing disastrous results. Figuratively speaking, he lives in a house whose closets are full of skeletons. Over the course of the play the many secrets that lie behind the Ekdals' apparently happy home are revealed to Gregers, who insists on pursuing the absolute truth, or the "Summons of the Ideal". This family has achieved a tolerable modus vivendi by ignoring the skeletons (among the secrets: Gregers' father may have impregnated his servant Gina then married her off to Hjalmar to legitimize the child, and Hjalmar's father has been disgraced and imprisoned for a crime the elder Werle committed.) and by permitting each member to live in a dreamworld of his own—the feckless father believing himself to be a great inventor, the grandfather dwelling on the past when he was a mighty sportsman, and little Hedvig, the child, centering her emotional life around an attic where a wounded wild duck leads a crippled existence in a make-believe forest.
The Wild Duck, by Henrik Ibsen- Amazon Sales Rank: #1091868 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .27" w x 6.00" l, .36 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 116 pages
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Should people always tell the truth? By Israel Drazin This is one of the many wonderful plays by Henrik Ibsen in which he portrays the ills of society. Werle is a successful merchant. His previous partner Ekdal was found guilty of a crime, although it becomes clear in the play that Werle committed the crime. Ekdal served time in prison for Werle’s deed and is now, after his release, a broken man. Werle eases his conscience by giving him some copying work to do, so that he has pocket money.When Ekdal went to prison, Werle also gave Ekdal’s son, Hialmar, money to start a photography business on a small scale, a business that Hialmar does not like very much. And he gave Hialmar his mistress as a wife without telling him of his relationship with her.Hialmar’s wife has a daughter with an eye disease. She is now fourteen years old. Hialmar has been married for under fifteen years. Ekdal lives with his son and his family and raises some animals in the garret, including a wild duck that Werle shot but did not kill because he has an eye disease. The duck was snatched and bitten by one of Werle’s dogs and is slightly lame. It tried to hide in water and is hurt for being there too long. Werle told one of his men to kill the duck, but Ekdal rescued it.Werle has a son, Gregers, who considers himself a friend of Hialmar. Gregers is bothered by his involvement in the nefarious deeds of his father. He believes in the ennobling value of truth, sincerity, and the ideal. He feels that he must reveal all the things that Hialmar does not know about his wife. He is misguidedly convinced that that the revelation of the truth will make Hialmar’s marriage ideal.The wounded wild duck is obviously a symbol. Gregers thinks that Ekdal and his son have “something of the wild duck” in them. Are they the only ones? Is everyone in the play a wounded wild duck? How can a wounded duck be cured?After Gregers reveals Hialmar’s wife’s past to Hialmar and Hialmar is distraught, Hialmar’s doctor tells Gregers that he will heal Hialmar by “cultivating the life-illusion in him.” The Norwegian word literally means “the life-lie.” The doctor says, “Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.” The doctor is clearly saying that the average person needs “the life-lie” in order to live, and cannot survive happily with the truth or the ideal.
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