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Feb 28, - So it may come as a surprise to come across a play by Ibsen with a very different atmosphere. The Lady from the Sea () takes place over a.
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Perls' doctrines were based on a simple phrase: "Grow Up. All of which was said years earlier by Henrik Ibsen, art, as always, preceding science politicians please note.

Ibsen knew he was a genius. He provides enough plot and action in his plays for the most literal audience. But there is always more He himself wrote of the influence of winter in the remote whiteness of Norway, with the ominous and ever-changing sea so close. Those influences are overt in The Lady from the Sea.

There is a restlessness, not confined to Ellida but infecting everyone. The play is a sea poem. A note. In many productions of The Lady from the Sea one can be forgiven for wondering why Ellida stays with the boring old doctor when she could clear off with the handsome stranger. But Dr Wangel is in the prime of life. He is also a man with a beautiful wife who won't sleep with him. The atmosphere in the household is Bergmannesque, to put it mildly - murderous when the Stranger's appearance completes the classical triangle.

If we are allowed to empathise with the agony of the doctor as well as the pain and bewilderment of his wife, then the play works.

Another note. Ibsen, in his 60s, fell in love with a 19 year old girl. They corresponded for a year before he ended the relationship for reasons of propriety. It may be as a consequence that the play, which is highly sexualised - everyone yearns for someone else - deals with the younger people with such affection and tender amusement. The young ones are allowed to be mischievous, silly and to dream.

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For the grown-ups, the climate is cooler. Dreams are for adolescents. Ellida has the choice to remain enmeshed in immaturity, etiolated by fantasy The Lady from the Sea play by Ibsen.

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Henrik Ibsen , major Norwegian playwright of the late 19th century who introduced to the European stage a new order of moral analysis that was placed against a severely realistic middle-class background…. Norwegian literature, the body of writings by the Norwegian people. The roots of Norwegian literature reach back more than 1, years into the pagan Norse past.

In its evolution Norwegian literature was closely intertwined with Icelandic literature and with Danish literature. Only after the….

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