Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1888: A Critical BiographyA.C.McClurg, 1890 - 275 pàgines |
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Pàgina 168 - all our provision was spent ; but, in addressing myself to the Lord, I found myself deeply affected with the fourth petition of the Lord's prayer, ' Give us this day our daily bread...
Pàgina 232 - men still call for special revolutions, for revolutions in politics, in externals. But all that sort of thing is trumpery. It is the soul of man that must revolt." Thus in these important directions, and in others more or less like them, the educated youth starts under disadvantages from which the trained youth is free. The trained youth has no incentive to regard these matters except as one or another of them may bear upon his...
Pàgina 235 - Who works, prays," and everybody endeavors to make others work for himself. They say, " Never lie !" and politics is a big lie. And we accustom ourselves and our children" to live under this double-faced morality, which is hypocrisy, and to conciliate our double-facedness by sophistry. Hypocrisy and sophistry become the very basis of our life. But society cannot live under such a morality. It cannot last so : it must, it will, be changed. The question is thus no more a mere question of bread.
Pàgina 240 - That is the splendid thing — to be able to act on one's own responsibility. But that requires self-realization, that is to say, personality. And hence Ibsen urges the claim of the broader human quality of woman. "Thou art, first and foremost, wife and mother," says Helmer. And Nora replies, "I believe that I am, first and foremost, a human being; I, as well as thou — or in any case, that I should endeavor to become one.
Pàgina 28 - It must be a hundred years old; and there are such heaps of pictures in it. At the beginning there is Death with an hour-glass and a woman.
Pàgina 155 - ... look upon literary affairs as matters of no general interest."1 The thing was carried so far that when, some time afterwards, Ibsen applied for a travelling stipend, one of the professors at the university declared that " the person who had written ' Love's Comedy ' deserved a stick rather than a stipend.
Pàgina 47 - ... more singular equipment for a modern dramatist is barely conceivable. Soon we discover that Ibsen is playing with the antique dramatic counters under another name. Free-will and determinism — what are these but the very breath of classic tragedy! In one of his rare moments of expansion he said: "Many things and much upon which my later work ,has turned — the contradiction between endowment and desire, between capacity and will, at once the entire tragedy and comedy of mankind — may here...
Pàgina 29 - Sunday afternoons, as a magician in one of the rooms of the hou?2, and all the neighbors around were invited to witness the performance. I see him distinctly in his short jacket, standing behind a large chest that was decorated and draped for the occasion, and there he presided over performances that appeared like witchcraft to the amazed spectator. Of course I knew that his younger brother, well paid for his assistance, was inside the chest. The brother had stipulated for pay by threatening a scandal...
Pàgina 29 - ... neighbors around were invited to witness the performance. I see him distinctly in his short jacket, standing behind a large chest that was decorated and draped for the occasion, and there he presided over performances that appeared like witchcraft to the amazed spectator. Of course I knew that his younger brother, well paid for his assistance, was inside the chest. The brother had stipulated for pay by threatening a scandal if it were withheld, and as that would have been, to a boy with Henrik's...