ENGL 314 Lecture Notes - Henrik Ibsen
8 Jan 2014
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Written in rhyming verse written in very artificial romantic language. About: falk wants to be a poet and thinks to be great, he needs to be constantly experiencing passionate, romantic love. Thinks that, therefore, he can"t ever get married, because that will destroy such love. Falk and his young love decide they will ignore society"s conventions and live without marriage in true love. She then forces him to admit that, even if they continue this, he cannot guarantee they will never fall out of love. The only way to guarantee their love will always be powerful and true is for her to leave him. It ends with her leaving him, getting married, while he traipses off into the mountains, tormented. A doll"s house 1879 taken as a social problem play. Love"s comedy 1862 women"s rights and emancipation like a newspaper play, finding problems in the world and writing about them.
