Monologue

Wa Monologue from The Master Builder

From The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen

male · philosophical · 1:18 min

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*FOOTNOTES. (1)"To the May-sun of a September life--in Tyrol." (2)"High, painful happiness--to struggle for the unattainable!" (3) Neus deutsche Rundschau, December, 1906, p.1462. (4)This conception I have worked out at much greater length in an essay entitled The Melody of the Master Builder, appended to the shilling edition of the play, published in 1893. I there retell the story, transplanting it to England and making the hero a journalist instead of an architect, in order to show that (if we grant the reality of certain commonly-accepted phenomena of hypnotism) there is nothing incredible or even extravagantly improbable about it. The argument is far too long to be included here, but the reader who is interested in the subject may find it worth referring to. (5)For an instance of the technical methods by which he suggested the supernormal element in the atmosphere of the play, see Introduction to A Doll's House, p. xiv.

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40s · longing · ambition · identity · freedom · isolation

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