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Works of Henrik Ibsen: John Gabriel Borkman

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

Ibsen, Henrik
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
John Gabriel Borkman

Introduction.

Ibsen's last play but one, John Gabriel Borkman (1896), is the tragedy
of a financier who like Bernick in Pillars of Society jilted a woman to marry
her sister. Here the resemblance ends, since Borkman then proceeded to
embezzle huge sums from his bank until he was finally detected and imprisoned.
The action of the play involves Borkman himself, now a broken, self-deluded,
but still defiantly hopeful old man, and the twin sisters who battle for the
affections of Borkman's son Erhart. Like Rosmersholm, it is a tragedy, but ...

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