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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Ibsen, Henrik

Ibsen, Henrik
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Wild Duck

Introduction:

Ibsen wrote this play in 1884 as an answer to An Enemy of the People,
just as that play answered the critics of Ghosts. But in The Wild Duck, Ibsen
seems to focus upon himself; at least that was the interpretation given to the
play by its contemporary critics, as well as by many recent scholars. In
Doctor Thomas Stockmann, Ibsen presents a well-intentioned idealist and
reformer who is rather bumbling and easily taken advantage of. The message of
that play centers on the necessity for truth and freedom, for which the Doctor
would ...

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