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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