Sunday, December 4, 2011

The Wild Duck - Journal # 1

Pardon me if I'm going the complete wrong direction here, but I believe Ibsen established a boundary concerning what characters are willing to speak about. I noticed one near the beginning:
"Oh, Gregers, let's not talk about that." (Ibsen 122)
A rather personal matter, hmm?

Another one I can see is social limitation. Smoking in particular was mentioned several times, as well as the ban that Mrs. Sorby put on it when she said "After the last dinner - when there were certain person here who let themselves exceed all limits."

Oh yeah, just noticed on page 131, more trying to shove personal matters under the carpet. "Acquittal is acquittal. Why do you rake up this ugly old story that's given me gray hair before my time?" (131)

Werle gives some detail on what happened, but does not seem to enjoy the topic being shoved on him by his son Gregers.

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