Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
With _The Master Builder_--or _Master Builder Solness_, as the title runs in the original--we enter upon the final stage in Ibsen's career. "You are essentially right," the poet wrote to Count Prozor in March 1900, "when you say that the series which closes with the Epilogue (...
With _The Master Builder_--or _Master Builder Solness_, as the title runs in the original--we enter upon the final stage in Ibsen's career. "You are essentially right," the poet...
2. Chapter 2In the draughtsmen's office sit KNUT BROVIK and his son RAGNAR, occupied with plans and calculations. At the desk in the outer office stands KAIA FOSLI, writing in the ledger. K...
3. Chapter 3[Breaking off, rises again.] Well, well, well--then we won't talk any more about it. [He saunters across the room, returns, and stops beside the table. Looks at the doctor with...
4. Chapter 4[Has leaned back in the chair, still gazing at her.] Isn't it strange--? The more I think of it now, the more it seems to me as though I had gone about all these years torturing...
5. Chapter 5The fright had shaken Aline terribly. The alarm--the escape--the break-neck hurry--and then the ice-cold night air--for they had to be carried out just as they lay--both she and...
6. Chapter 6You will have other things to think of now, and to attend to; and that is a very good thing for you. Well, go home with the drawings now, Miss Fosli. At once! Do you hear?
7. Chapter 7[Laughs in exasperation.] Thank him, when he has held me down year after year! When he made father disbelieve in me--made me disbelieve in myself! And all merely that he might--!