Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Where in Ibsen's "A Doll's House" could I find the word "wreck" without any addition to the word, such as "shipwrecked" or "wreckage."

At the beginning of Act Three, Krogstad uses the word
"wreck" in the context of "a broken man clinging to the wreck of his life". The whole
line reads: "When I lost you, it was just as if the ground had slipped away from under
my feet. Look at me now: a broken man clinging to the wreck of his
life."


The line is then echoed shortly after by Kristine
Linde who states: "You said you were like a broken man clinging to the wreck of his
life" and then "And I am like a broken woman clinging to the wreck of her life. Nobody
to care about, and nobody to care for."


As the play was
originally written in German, translations vary; however my edition (Henrik Ibsen, Four
Major Plays, Oxford World's Classics) includes a brief introduction to Ibsen (by James
McFarlane in 1961) and a select bibliography, along with three of his other plays, but
some other editions may not include the exact word
"wreck". 


I've attached a photograph of the page in my
edition (excuse my notes).


I hope this has been
useful.


Some images
are still being reviewed.

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