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The Wild Duck one of Ibsen’s latter plays not only shows his great talent for mimesis writing, with it social depth and distinguished realism it offers a psychologically framed exploration into human nature. ... Naturalistic dramas, such as ‘The Wild Duck’ offer an illusion or picture of reality. ... The Wild Duck offers this to a certain extent. ... ‘ What I find interesting about The Wild Duck is that if Zola’s theory upon Naturalism is true then Ibsen has conditioned his whole play to play upon the dangers that exposing the truth can bring. ... Advances upon the technical aspect of theatre that were in operation in Ibsen’s time of writing gave him more possibilities for creating a ‘true’ piece of naturalistic theatre. Gas lighting allowed a director to adjust the lighting to suit the mood of the play, offering greater variety from ‘standardised’ lighting. ... The stage design, a box set dressed accordingly, realistically and familiarly, was Ibsen’s preferred setting for The Wild Duck. ... Acting had moved away from the melodramatic flounces of the past. ... Actors were not simply beginning to act real life but as Zola proposed, actors were to ‘live’ on stage. ... The Wild Duck is written in prose, speech is normal and everyday, and characters are allowed to interrupt one another. ... We see retrospection in The Wild Duck, characters backgrounds are gradually unveiled, we get references to the past and glimpses into important information upon a characters past actions. ... My final point of consideration upon the technical aspects of The Wild Duck would be the use of props as symbolic as well as vital items for use in a naturalistic environment. ... Every element combined to create The Wild Duck encouraged an audience member to identify and become psychologically involved with the action on stage. ... Ibsen used his talents as a naturalistic playwright to give theatre social significance, just as A Dolls House addresses issues still considered relevant today, such as feminism, The Wild Duck offers views on the differences in human psychology, hereditary and class. ... The play involves individuals restricted by society such as class divides, this is most apparent in act one when Old Ekdal’s intrusion in the party is a subject for gossip due to his position in society as a disgraced man. I feel the play ends true to a naturalistic style, as it offers no compromise the play closes with its two ‘spiritual doctors’ [Gregers and Relling] commenting upon Hedvig’s ‘sacrifice’. ... Upon realising this I found it interesting to consider the influences upon Ibsen when he wrote The Wild Duck. ... As with many of Ibsen’s plays The Wild Duck has concerns of class divides. ... I feel these influences are reflected in Ibsen’s cynical, naturalistic conclusion. ... Though The Wild Duck is a naturalistic play, it does harbour some melodramatic elements. ... He attempts to rid himself of his own inherited ‘sick conscious’ by forcing upon people the ‘claim of the ideal’, which I feel is incredibly ironic, if he truly believed in the ‘claim of the ideal’ opening peoples minds would not be done for purely selfish reasons, he should not stand to gain from it. ... Such as in the beginning when the family gather round Hjalmar as he plays the flute and again in act three when Dr. ... She can see something ‘beautiful in the idea’ Gregers has of killing the wild duck initially. ... It is implied throughout the play that Gregers may have inherited a mental disease from his mother, Werle uses the motif of sight to comment upon this, by saying Gregers looks through his sickly mothers ‘clouded eyes’. |
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