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The Country of the Blind - A New Interpretation of the Plays of Henrik Ibsen (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Country of the Blind - A New Interpretation of the Plays of Henrik Ibsen (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: American University Studies, 33
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The Country of the Blind challenges the reigning conception of
Ibsen as social critic. It offers new and unique interpretations
stressing his preoccupation with the limitations and failings of
humankind that do not change, in particular one's reluctance or
inability to confront unpleasant truths about one's self and the
consequent attempts to conceal those truths from self and from
others. The result, in the plays considered, is that his personae
are not what they appear to be. We shall observe that Mrs. Alving
is not an heroic figure who has sacrificed all for her beloved son;
that the "virtuous" parson Manders may in fact be the father of
Oswald; that neither Gregers Werle nor Dr. Thomas Stockmann are the
idealists they profess to be; that Hedda Gabler and Halvard Solness
are the very antitheses of the persons they imagine themselves.
This gulf between illusion and actuality is evident even in the
case of secondary agents, confirming the supposition that Ibsen
believed self-deception inseparable from the human condition. The
protagonists' stratagems necessarily interact, forbidding each
knowledge of each and all knowledge of the meaning of external
circumstance. They are, and they remain, ignorant of their own
nature, and of the character of their closest associates,
imprisoned by the maze they have jointly fashioned. The book should
be of interest to the general reader, to companies interested in
performing the plays analyzed, to Ibsen scholars, and as a text for
courses in Ibsen.
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