"The Wild Duck" by Henrik Ibsen is a play that looks at tricky family and friend relationships, mainly by focusing on Hjalmar Ekdal, his wife Gina, their daughter Hedvig, and how they relate to Gregers Werle and his father. The story is about lying, honesty, and trying to find happiness. At the start, there's a fancy dinner party at Mr. Werle's house, where the characters mingle and Hjalmar meets Gregers again after a long time. We learn that Hjalmar is a photographer with a lot of family problems, partly because of his father's mistakes. The wild duck in the story represents the fight between what's real and what people pretend is real, which hints at bigger problems and complicated characters. The conversations bring up the ideas of how we see things versus what's true, and how past actions can affect current relationships, suggesting that things will get emotionally messy later on.
The wild duck : $b A drama in five acts
By Henrik Ibsen
A family's carefully constructed world of lies and secrets crumbles when an old friend arrives, determined to expose the truth.
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About the AuthorHenrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and the most influential playwright of the 19th century, as well of one of the most influential playwrights in Western literature more generally. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and When We Dead Awaken. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006.
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and the most influential playwright of the 19th century, as well of one of the most influential playwrights in Western literature more generally. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and When We Dead Awaken. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006.
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