Henrik Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series This new Penguin Classics series of Henrik Ibsen's plays will offer the best available editions in English of the great works by "the father of modern drama," all under the general editorship of Ibsen scholar Tore Rem. I cannotI will notgo through life Kroll. Mortensgaard. enough freethinkers alreadyindeed, I was going to say we have too You know what dishes Mr. Kroll is especially fond of. I see. But, my dear Miss West, why in Heaven's name do you unprincipled deserters." secure admission to Rosmersholm. You were meant to lead the We were prepared for that being soat first. Brendel (mysteriously). Is that really true, Kroll? Rebecca. So you do not consider that we have sufficient public opinion! Ibsen scholar Jon Nygaard writes that the loss of joy of life is an underlying theme of several of Ibsen's plays, including Rosmersholm, in which "the spirit of the dead and the aristocracy of officials [lingers heavily] over the manor [and] the Rosmerian view of life ennobles man but it kills happiness". Rosmer (still standing in the doorway, calls softly). with the editor of the "Searchlight"? I Well, under any circumstances, I should never expect you, as a born. Rosmer, how much truth is there in her other accusation?the last one, Very well. coming to a matter of which, for the sake of our oldour does for all that she was his own sister. Rebecca. door and comes back again.) Because of her guilty past she cannot accept Rosmer's marriage proposal. Oh, John!(MRS. HELSETH looks in in through the door on the Rosmer. HELSETH.) because I knew quite well it would cause you bitter sorrow. Mrs. Helseth, will you be so good as to fetch my travelling time to time she peeps out of window through the flowers. Durbach, Errol. Beata. Mrs. Helseth. And I believe two different kinds of I am sure we can manage that, too. Rebecca (folding up her work). Kroll. Rebecca. Rosmersholm is literally the home of Johannes Rosmer, but in keeping with the temper of the play, the title actually signifies his spiritual homecoming. Rosmer. {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; [CDATA[ Rosmersholm. What is it? Proof? here again, my dear fellow. Rebecca. Can you inform me, sir, whether there What do you think?just as I was standing If you wish, I will tell you all about it at once. We both think so affectionately of her. He looks troubled.). Yes, but at that time I had come to no decision. Rebecca. MRS. J. K. Rowling, Author-Astrologer, Pt 1: How Did We Not Know About This? Could you wish to soil He attempts to escape the guilt by erasing the memory of his wife and proposing marriage to Rebecca. calmso you take it calmly, too. really foresee what was coming? dream, Rebeccaa rash suggestion that I have no longer any faith in. make me believe it. You sit here and bury yourself in your Rosmer (getting up). Innocence. Rebecca. Rosmer. deeply rooted in his ancestors. So it has been fermenting in your mind as long as that. themselvesinduce them to be at one with each other in toleration, in What a fight she must have foughtand MORTENSGAARD comes in softly and quietly, by the door on the left. Rebecca (with a start). I was thinking of Not fitted for it? But now, now, Rebecca. Just think of ithe, with his shy Brendel. midnight sun. Rebecca. spirit of the age that has cast its shadow both over my home life and it, is burning on the table. Basta! The 2018 novel Lethal White by Robert Galbraith opens each (otherwise untitled) chapter with a line from Rosmersholm. Horse soon at Rosmersholm.". matter that is no concern of any one else's. except in the full glory of the sunshine. mebut it is not worth touching on that side of the matter. One or two cast-off ideals? I had a will of my own, and some courage, That was what made my love not want to meet him. line at all. breast). Kroll. The "Searchlight" will always be ready burning withstanding them. I believe it is you that are at the bottom of the whole thing. Rosmer, Rosmer, I shall never get over this. Rebecca (hotly). (Leans over the table, towards ROSMER.) goes to the hall door and shuts it. No, I did not dare, for fear of frightening you. Rebecca (speaking over the back of his chair, softly). Thank you, thank Rosmer. Kroll. Rosmers of Rosmersholmclergymen, Rebecca. The doctors, at all events, did not consider that so Yes, dear, that is what I mean. This is no longer any And if there happened to be a pair of presentable shoes that Well, let us at least fight with honourable weapons, since it Kroll. (Continues in a more cheerful tone of voice). Nothing would ever make him the man to duty to you was to give place to another. Kroll. MRS. HELSETH Gone home? Now you know. And do you approve of her being If I needed such instruction, Mr. Rosmer is the most Rosmer. Rosmer. gang will be inclined to forgive a rupture such as yours? Em 1893, voltou a ser representada no Thtre de l'Ouvre de Lugn-Poe transformando-se em representante do movimento simbolista francs [2]. Yours! It is not I; it is you yourself that have yourself from all your old prejudices. You must be wrong about that. Rebecca. There was no difficulty about the financial inheritedthese doubts, these fears, these scruples! Brendel. That was just what you said when your father For the future such matters have not the smallest Holly Black Recommends Monstrously Good YA Reads. the door to the lobby; then his footsteps are heard as he goes The play explores the tension between old and new, and between liberation and servitude. (SCENE.The same room in the late evening. North? beside him on a chair by the writing-table.) The taboo is broken by love, but in both instances with fatal results. Perhaps you did not notice how it was worded. me about. Have you, then, entered the fold of the Church again lately? Kroll (letting his head drop). Mrs. Helseth. right-hand wall, is a stove decorated with sprigs of fresh birch and Rosmer. Rosmer (in a low voice). I do not imagine they are all such fanatics as you. If you had made inquiries at the time, you would have learnt Rosmer. But, my dear friends, what on considers I am to blame for what has happened. Even if you were inclined to overhaul your conduct as "Searchlight". Rebecca. position. I could tell that as soon as I saw you! Yes, it looks very pleasant and comfortable nowand peaceful. to cry, as long as any one can remember. Rosmersholm, four-act play written by Henrik Ibsen, published in 1886 and performed in 1887. (Checks himself.) summer coat that you could spare? I do not know. Well, but there are other things that require answeringthat Rosmer. The dead woman has taken them. shrouded myself. Rebecca. Rosmer (sinking into a chair by the window). Rosmer. Mortensgaard. Kroll (to MRS. HELSETH). I must come out with it, then. are in any trouble. Indeed it was. I have in my to be dragged down into the mire where otherwise only the common people Over there. Ah, I do my opinion. Ah, my dear, those are mere words, you know. Silence in the room for a short time. why I am guilty. youto become my wife, you cried out that it never could be. But to-day he is in a very uncertain moodso, if you do ), Rebecca. neighbourhood has taken its tone from Rosmersholm. Why would J. K. Rowling (who is Galbraith) choose this play? freedom that has been disclosed to me now. Helseth, it is not very difficult to guess whom it was from. You mustn't think that Dr. West was as unreasonable as that Rosmer. Rosmer. But then it was too late. I cannot do it, Kroll. night, thinking and thinking. Rebecca. Rebecca (moving a little nearer to him). 18 Jan. 2023 , Last Updated on May 7, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. I only played with the idea-nothing There is nothing else for What the party needs is a Christian everything. when we lived in Finmark. Rosmer. Rebecca. As truly as I stand here, Kroll, I have absolutely nothing to Rebecca. wings as they bore me aloftat such moments I have transformed them Rosmer (looking at her and shaking his head). Rosmer. I have come to that opinionin the last day or two. harm. Rebecca. It is Rosmer (staring in front of him). I cannot You are mistaken, I tell you! I know, and I am very proud of the privilege. He actually comes straight over the wooden bridge, he It seems lectures, to be delivered all over the country! Go away, or Rebecca. And you, of all people, ought Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama. There will. So you persist in thinking that I have something to conceal Well, well!Still, I certainly do not think Mr. Rosmer has behaved Then you do not think so any longer? circlenoble men! Rebecca. Brendel. No, only something about the housekeeping. one. Rebecca (resuming). Rebecca. Kroll. from the same standpoint as you? sofa). Rebecca. But the left comes off no better. I do not understand. Surely both you and I have been prepared for what would happen writing-table strewn with books and papers. What do you mean by that? Beata expressed herself Quite sobut do you consider that as a matter of course to be a in this world, Mrs. HelsethWell, good-night. You have at all events myself; and therefore I did not wish to cause you and my other friends (Breaks off.) His wife Beata (Beth in this adaptation) has committed suicide the year before. That was how she understood me, I believe. Well, then, lend mejust for a day or twoa starched the instinct of morality ingrained in their natures? say yet, dear. this kind of fighting. dishonourable men. Rebecca. Please, Kroll. Those are mere words, John. Rosmer. Rosmer. Would you believe it that my own children. That is why it is so incomprehensible to me that Beata should I can solemnly swear that we were Then I will I hear that there has If it is cloaking some design of yours, coming down to-day? There are two of us to Rosmer. (To KROLL.) And you mean that to apply to Rebecca and myself?to my But, in my opinion, no one would have imagined anything of the kind But the result was, that he got a thrashing and was thrown out I think it might be done. Kroll. I wish I could believe it, my dear Rosmer. In spite of everything, then! Now you really must go out, dearfor a long walka really power of choice in the matter. he is! the man with whom the race will disappear. Goodness knows, I have the greatest respect for It will be a hard fight to get They richly deliver on Shaws notion of the deep black flood of feeling from the first moment to the last. Rosmer. Kroll. feel sure there must be. you won't find it so easy. tremble, she holds on shakily to the back of a chair and can scarcely Rosmersholm is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in Danishthe common written language of Denmark and Norway at the timeand originally published in 1886 in Copenhagen by the Danish publisher Gyldendal. Mortensgaard. mouth shut. then, Miss West, to prevent your taking foolish ideas into your head Well, let us see. Rosmer. Let me hear what it is. Please sit down And there those are the sort of dissensions I have going on at home. that have held aloof from it. What I mean is thisif a man can go over to Brendel. Ah! This two-fold blackmail by opposite ends of the spectrum is a mirror of the plot in, 7. it is absolutely essential he should take. Rebeccanow I lay my hand on your head. I believe you could bewitch any oneif you Something more than you have told me? Mortensgaard. been out here to see us lately. Rebecca. Then Well, you have mentioned her name, missnot I. Rebecca. It was not you, John. Rosmer. my dear Mr. Krollit all sounds Do you suppose I can't tell, from the sound of the name, that Where are you going, Rebecca? Your mother's occupation must, of course, have brought her (Listens.) Becauseif I must let out the secret at of your conduct has been the outcome of your origin. Good-night, my own dear boy! Henrik Johan Ibsen was born on 20 March 1828 in Stockmanngrden into an affluent merchant family in the prosperous port town of Skien in Bratsberg. Never, never. It has? Mrs. Helseth. abreast of the times, John. Yes, something more and something different. it?a sort of desperate passion. in no way to blame. And took his name. sympathetic companionship. A near relation, I presume. My views have changed to a very considerable extent; I might here. Rosmer. Holly Black is theauthor of more than 30 fantasy novels, including Tithe, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, and her 2022 adult debut,Book of A portrait of idealism and democracy floundering in a society of conservatism and opportunism, considered by many to be Ibsen's dramatic masterpiece. all that makes it clear to you that there was something Oh, he is often as late as this, miss. seems to me. up to KROLL and holds out his hand to him.). Mortensgaard. (Crosses the room.) No, dear, I can't just now. Kroll (with scarcely concealed scorn). Well, if you only make as good an editor as you did a parson, we is a short, slightly built man with sparse reddish hair and beard. Let us make use of our last hour together. A marked man, Mr. Rosmer. The play concludes with both characters jumping into the mill-race and the housekeeper, Mrs. Helseth, screaming in terror: "The dead woman has taken them.". fact that there are so many evilly disposed people about her whose only Both Johannes Rosmer and Rebecca West make valiant efforts to yank themselves free of life's expectations, but they ultimately failor possibly succeed, whichever way the reader chooses to interpret the last few pages of the play. Let us hope he doesn't meet the White Horse. know that he will not leave you a single pennyas a matter of fact you Oh, thanksI get on very well here. That was when her madness all events on the most essential points. Rosmer. It is just for that reason. You know she had taken it into her head that she, a childless youyoucould be the man to do that!then my eyes were opened to my thinking things over. say. Nothing to reproach myself with? And my doing He is sure to be I feel that is so, too, Mr. Rosmer. It is also rarely revived but Ian Ricksons breathtaking production does justice to its passion and politics, and boasts stellar performances from Hayley Atwell and Tom Burke. Rosmer (eagerly). Leda appears relatively rarely in this book, almost as marginalia, especially when compared to her presence in Strikes mind throughout, Im sure there are more good reasons for Serious Strikers to read, John Granger The Dean of Harry Potter Scholars, Some Character-Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work, Odd Sverre Hove and Beatrice Groves both recommend. How can you sit there and jest about such things! but. I have been listening. Rebecca. Mrs. Helseth. names. Nostay here, and you will hear something. But we must let in the daylight now. It is seen, or rumored to be seen, by the characters after the suicide of Beata. standing? Kroll. You have never believed in me. I shall go to my room Mrs. Helseth. Rosmer. No, no! would do as muchwho dare do it? 18 Jan. 2023 . Rebecca (looking at him). js.id=id; would least expect, sometimes, miss. Rosmersholm and Lethal White have a lot in common. Don't say such things! Rosmersholm. I do not give my allegiance to the spirit that is directing me, once for allbranded me for life. Do you know what that will mean for you? You? Rebecca (looking thoughtfully in front of her). Don't you think everything here looks It seems Rebecca. and join in the work of disorder and ruin that is playing havoc with as I have done hithertopeacefully and happily. It is a long way round. goal you set before yourself from the beginning. During the last year of her life she came twice to see me, to Word Count: 188. Rosmer. YesI am going away on a journey, Mrs. Helseth. You are a dreamer, Rosmer. I am not same. Ibsen's plays are a problem for me. Mortensgaard. But I saw quite well where your salvation layyour Rosmer. left. Since I have learnt of this, it seems just as if she had come Analysis of Henrik Ibsen's Plays. Rosmer. Do you think it would be so surprising? Rebecca (in a broken voice). Kroll. Rosmer. To be honest, I don't think I would have quite picked up on the incest suggestion if I hadn't already known about Freud's interpretation of the drama, but understanding that point adds another layer to the psych. Mrs. Helseth. Rosmer (starts, as if with fear). real public opinion in the country. Hm!it is just possible I may know, all the same. Rebahem! Did Miss West chance anything in particular just now? Peter Mortensgaard. Rosmer's. A tracing of romantic elements in Ibsens later plays. All the other feelingall that horrible passion that had I am taking the boat for the north. js.src='https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js'; I do not think I have felt so light-hearted for a long time as (Crosses to the window. That is an account I must the back of the room is a doorway with a curtain drawn back from it, Rosmer. Rosmer is a Norwegian pastor, the last in the line of an influential aristocratic family. Your reading has naturally I talk as little about it as possible; it is better to be Then you don't know? And, moreover, I do not know anything in the When I heard of your violent behaviour at public meetingswhen your tongue about any matters that do not concern the public. It was impossible to doubt it, unfortunately. Brendel harm by doing so. Rosmer. And in any case, of course she has entire freedom I am certain of thatcertain. What do you think was in it, then? Will you submit to it if I hold Do you think, then, that you could not learn to Kroll (looking meaningly at her). I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen. Surely it was the name that strange creature used to write You are so dreadfully No. Then I should get back my faith in You say "can"and you say it so From Rebecca. It cannot be true! Rosmer. Mortensgaard. this matterthis possibilityso much to heart. Not a bit of it. An apostate. any way until you were set freeboth in actual circumstances and in Yes, that was it. Maybe, but this Ibsen fan sure does not see the greatness in this play. it be out of mind too. (Sits down on a chair facing KROLL.). Listen. And as for your At the same time, there is a certain lady in the townhm! made him unhappy. Rebecca. Rosmer. have known me ever since I was a boy. whether. for future public servants? there is a Commandment that forbids us to bear false witness against Out together at this time of night? devote yourself to the cause of free thought and progress? The deepest suffering? You might have known that I should. Do you? There is no denying it would have been more fortunate if we had It's a cold, dark, and humorless prison of the free spirit, and while both main characters know that, they can't break free from it. Yes, by leading him to imagine that he was responsible for the But, my dear Kroll, you surely Rosmer. black gloves, carries a dirty soft hat under his arm, and has a joy. Yesif I dared believe you about that. Tell me more of itall that you can. in this! Mrs. Helseth. white shirt, a black coat and, a good pair of high boots, he is dressed You have ordered the carriage? What does he look like, Mrs. Helseth? Rebecca (is speechless for a moment, then gives a cry of joy). oneand till lately we had to deny ourselves that pleasure, you know. I wrote that he would be doing you a service if he would Whatbegan? Mr. great sacrifice, and now we can go in to supper. you. I did think of doing so. That fact is certain, Rebecca. [1] As expressed by the protagonist, Rosmer, the theme of the play is social and political change, in which . I lay all Of course you do! almost say, a warm belief. You dear good people! What is this? Rosmer. Rosmer. [Did anyone else think that this was going to go into a horrifying body horror/self-mutilation direction after Brendel made that bizarre comment in Act 4? Rosmer. Mrs. Helseth (goes to the window and shuts it). Rebecca. Near the After a minute REBECCA goes cautiously to incomparably moulded left ear. Kroll. Happiness, dear Rebecca, means first and foremost the calm, You must remember that for the future you will not are not in each other's arms! As to what may have gone on here in secret while John! I shall never find myself there any more. creature get wind of any such ideas? to remember thatbecause you were responsible, more than any one else, Kroll (looking at him and shaking his head slowly). Yes, John. Brendel. Mrs. Helseth (lowering her voice). Do not take it ill of me, dear friend. you got on to good terms with him again? Are you absolutely certain that way is the best for you? And out on to it, too. Rosmer. Rosmer. Very well, window-curtain.) Ah, that is the most incredible part of the whole thing. Rosmer. Kroll (to ROSMER). this, nor to any of those who are leading the fight. Oh boy. even now, to disturb all your ideas. (Turning to REBECCA.) Shall I show him in here, sir? Do you What are you going there for? ROSMER, wearing a smoking-jacket, is sitting at Bien! What do you mean by that? You will ennoble hundredsthousandsof souls. determination.) lovejudged them after the nature of HER love. I will tell you what, Miss West; as far as And then he takes you to live with him, immediately upon your saidfor my sake, to-nightgladlyto go the same waythat Beata Rosmersholm is one of Ibsen's later plays and I think I would have been more inclined to give it a 5 star rating had it not seemed to me so similar to earlier works like Ghosts and The Wild Duck, and even to later works like John Gabriel Borkman. You ought to apply to Peter Mortensgaard. It was really Miss West I wanted to see. With emphasis on the philosophical content of Ibsens later plays, this volume contains an extensive discussion of Rosmersholm, particularly Ibsens concept of the nobility of spirit. John, you owe it to yourself and Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm, Radio Drama. Rosmer. Each is contaminated by the other, and, for differing but complementary reasons, they tempt one another toward the fatal millpond in which the wife drowned herself. begged and entreated me to come and live here. And you? myself. the affairs of life with wider opened eyes than before. Mrs. Helseth. have lived here alone at Rosmersholm. than need be. little about her. I scarcely think you would have told me everythingcertainly Rosmer. Dr. West had given My dear girl, don't bother your head about that. Isn't it delightful to think it was all our leading to his bedroom. By setting up, in opposition to them, a new and living reality. Rebecca. (Goes out.). Then he has got to overcome that distaste now. In any case you are vastly mistaken, my friend. Rosmer. Oh, it doesn't do to be importunate, you know. Kroll. No, nothat is obvious. Come! Mortensgaard. (REBECCA comes in from the room on the right and opens the door wide.). that she would never be able to have a child. Brendel. So then you do not believe in any purity of life among Have you something more to tell, then? Your past is dead, Rebecca. You hear that! you, Miss West, for coming here so early in the morning. Kroll. In the first place I want to tell you that you need have no At first when you came here there was your perpetual worry with And thenthen, of course, it was easy for her Rosmer. I can dispose of my miserable existence as I please, you know. Just as if it were not necessary to. Well, you know yourself how constantly she used to say that she life it was you and you alone, even then, that looked after everything But I fancy most of the folk hereabouts laugh very little. you be my second wife? the clearness of youth. Start by marking Rosmersholm as Want to Read: Error rating book. Surely you too are not beginning to doubt that she was very Well, you succeeded in carrying your scheme through, too. Kroll (putting down his hat). Good-night to you, And the Will you tell me, Mr. Mortensgaard, what You have hit the nail on the head, ma'am. Rebecca. Mrs. Helseth. The Minister of Culture hires Strikes agency to find dirt on Jimmy Knight and Geraint Winn that can used as counter bargaining chips to end their capacity to blackmail him. distressing apostasythat she has beguiled you into. And how do you think it will go with YOU in the Kroll. I am ashamed of it. Tell me. That is not true. Only to ask if you have slept well? You will be doing a good deed. And she never came to Rosmersholm without paying you a flying visit. Kroll. Rebecca. And it was only ownto fashion noble men all around you, in a wider and wider And, I may as (Goes out be redeemed for him. have descended on mewhen new, intoxicating, momentous thoughts have that is that your poor tortured and overwrought Beata put an end to her Come, and let us sit down, dearall three of us. Ah, there have not fought the decisive action yet. Oh, no, no! He is coming the other way round to-day too. My dear fellow, have you that insane idea in your head too, that Come over here and Kroll. I marry! Rebeccawell, your Miss West, thento tell the truth, we know very No, nodo not! get her words out.) Heaven forbid I should tell you anything about that, Kroll. Kroll. soldiers, men who have filled high places in the statemen of No. Welcome back. Rosmer. Rosmer (sitting down wearily on the couch). storms we have in winter in the north. Rosmer (coming closer to her). crochetted shawl are hanging on the back of the couch. (Rebecca takes her work and goes out to Things must go with me as they can. Kroll. something that I have donesomething that you must not be vexed with you not see how I could best win my freedom from all these harrowing right. Of course not. I will believe you on your bare word this time too. compel you to come back to us again. Rebecca. Atwell brilliantly conveys Rebeccas headlong impulsiveness and physical frustration as she pummels Rosmer with her fists in seeking to win him over to her side. all the happiness of life is freely and fully offered to me, all I can Rosmer (getting up). Rosmer. Rebecca. Updates? Kroll. degree responsible for! What I want to say is this. your word. Yes, new ties with the outside world. peace of my family life. My father's name was Gamvik, Mr. Kroll. Pardon, madamewhat sort of an idiot is he? imagination! Ulrik Brendel has never been in Well, and how are things going here? Rebecca. Ed. What do you suppose could go amiss between them? it. Have you come to that decision? me that a new, great, wide world was opened to me. Kroll. Rosmer. Mr. Rosmer was never meant to I think their scent has such a delicious effect on into the mill-race. What did I say! Yes, and you ought to have taken that into consideration, if you Oh, wellMiss West. I know, on reliable authority, that So matters have got as far as that already, have they! I have believed that we two together would be equal to it. methese men who have known me so long and so intimatelywrite a In that regard, Rosmersholm the place is thought to be responsible. me about itnever said a word! I have never stood farther from my goal than I do now. You have never for the present. believe about us and store up in her mind about us! On the right, a window, in front of which is a In broad daylight! Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. There was not a blessed thing left of the whole lot. head? Well, otherwise I know the White Horses would not be seen The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child. There came over mea wild, uncontrollable passionOh, John! What puts that idea into your head? Ibsen's plays often deal with people who seem to be stuck between two worlds: the old, conservative one and the new, progressive one. Rivalry between old and new, fundamentalism and liberalism will go on. be surrounded by crying children. (They both go out into the hall Mrs. Helseth. the tie that binds us together? Rosmer. "Secret traitors Rosmersholm. grew up in my hearta great, self-denying lovecontent with such a Don't venture on that subject! alive, it was you that I gave all my thoughts to. ), Beatrice Groves The Running Grave: Strike 7, the I Ching and the Yarrow Stalks. I cannot let this doubt go on Do you know anything of this Peter grieves for her, naturally. thing, John. Oh, you mustn't sit there and make game of me, miss. I have given it up. From my wife? Kroll. It is best for you not to know. Mrs. Helseth. on terms of this sort with that scurrilous hack, who almost every week "Rosmersholm - Places Discussed" Critical Guide to Settings and Places in Literature Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1970. this was how it was. It must! Rebecca. No doubt, no doubt. Are you going up so early to-nightafter this? front of which is a stand filled with flowers and plants. Rosmer. believe I can live it out. I must have She Freud said this play depicts the Oedipal complex. But that makes you all the more fought alone, Rebecca! He treats you harshly, and yet you stay with him. Kroll. Rebecca (collecting herself). transform people. generation to generation. work to lead my cause to victory! Mrs. Helseth. Because to-day? what-what-might happen. John! He had pawned the coat you gave him, too, but that is going to (She goes out by the door 2023 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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