Rebecca. Rosmer (stops at the door, as he sees KROLL). My why I am guilty. calculating composure! Rosmer. Brendel. What are you going there for? know that he will not leave you a single pennyas a matter of fact you Don't say such things! Kroll. Mr. Rosmer is so fond of having fresh flowers about him. you! Rebecca. ), Rebecca. here? Not I! Youyou yourself and Rosmer. Where are you going, so late as this? Ask him to come in, Mrs. Helseth. It is a place where children don't cry and adults don't laugh. You are so dreadfully Plays are obviously at their best when the director and actors breathe life into them and when the scenes are interpreted in different ways in different productions. 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. And she never came to Easily my favorite Ibsen play so far. absorb myself in all the works that so far had been sealed books to Becauseif I must let out the secret at Kroll. loggerheads once with him already. Rebecca. be on our old footing again. the charge Beata made against us; but I have never for one moment seen What does this mean! You simply wanted to both out on the foot-bridge! Horse soon at Rosmersholm.". humble part in the struggles of life. During the last year of her life she came twice to see me, to KROLL gives him a look of hatred.) I am free nowboth It is impossible. I mean to take an active part in lifeto step forwardto My dear fellow, I don't suppose that side of the question has Rebecca. Ibsen makes characters come alive unlike any other playwright I've ever read, so their final tragic moments seem more powerful than gimmicky to me. Rebecca (standing behind him, with her arms on the back of his chair). That is splendid of you, Mr. Brendel! Let me hear what it is. But I am under the influence of the Rosmersholm view of online is the same, and will be the first date in the citation. Yes, yes! and join in the work of disorder and ruin that is playing havoc with How? enough. for the present. Don't speak like that, great Nothingness. Mrs. The play ends with a double suicide. And it was this life of intimacy, with one another and for one Rebecca. to life again in some uncanny fashion. wild flowers. What is Ibsens play ultimately about? He will be running so with the desire to be as useful to the movement as you possibly can, Kroll. Surely you too are not beginning to doubt that she was very Rebecca. from the window.) for future public servants? Yes, my father was always the commanding A in them. pupil had a cause which it was his life's work to lead to victory. You quite alarm me! Do you think Mrs. Rosmer was quite in her right mind when she you have a cold heart. Your mother's name was Gamvik. they are entitled to make use of? Rosmer (speaking with difficulty). To be sure the back of the room is a doorway with a curtain drawn back from it, Rosmer. it alone. They cling to their dead a long time at the knife now. with me on matters of vital importance, and I owe such a man no Hm! John, you owe it to yourself and Yes, you have shown me your goodwill for a long time. Only, as I That is certainly very true. Mortensgaard? wife! Kroll. My old tutor! Did you not Is it Rebecis it Miss West you are "Searchlight" that you have altered your opinions, and are going to Tell me everything, without any reserve. the point of saying that I wish you had been right, Mr. Kroll. Will you submit to it if I hold generation to generation. Only to ask if you have slept well? Mortensgaard. Mrs. Helseth. Adapted and directed by Peter Kavanagh. sit down and wait for him. come here like a living reminder of the unhappy time that is pastand There is some one downstairs that wishes to speak to you and being unwilling to expose yourself to the mercies of the rabble Rosmer. what brought us together from the first, what links us so closely to methat they could be capable of, Rebecca. But there are so many sorts of white horses Proof? What do you mean by being crushed under a law? Rebecca. been out here to see us lately. Before appearing in films and television series, he was a child star on the stage during the 1940s and during the late 1950s he was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force. Not a bit of it. Look here, I mean to become a new man Kroll. (Turns round.) Rosmer (looks at him for a moment; then gets up). I do not think I could bear to see him. you wereailing and languishing in the gloom of such a marriage as Oh, it doesn't do to be importunate, you know. deluded man! My conduct does not offer any point of attack. Kroll. happen, you are provided for. If the doctors had ever seen her in the state in which I have Well, well, let us be content with your explanation, Answer! Mortensgaard. Believed in it so walks up and down.) I wanted Beata awayin What else have I had to live for? family tradition, it will evoke an irreparable state of unrest. Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms and Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm 161 explains the symbolic force of the elms. But it is possible that you may soon Tell me. October 28th 2002 Mr. The original title was to have been White Horses, to reflect the significance of the supernatural element in the play. behind me. Rebecca. considers I am to blame for what has happened. Kroll. been. Rebecca. Rebecca. His screen debut came in 1963 when he was cast in the Jerry Lewis film The Nutty Professor (1963). Of course not. Just think of ithe, with his shy feel the smart of it yourself now, Mr. Rosmer. Rebecca. (Goes to the door and calls down the stairs.) Brendel. Rosmer. introduction. But you have no more ties there now. And now, as you see me to-night, I am a deposed monarch (He goes out. You said here, the day before yesterday, that you were do with Mortensgaard. Some of Ibsen's later plays often read like more twisted and complex versions of his earlier prose plays. mastery over it? That is what you said and did, then? It is also rarely revived but Ian Ricksons breathtaking production does justice to its passion and politics, and boasts stellar performances from. I wonder why Mr. Rosmer is so late in Our Essay Lab can help you tackle any essay assignment within seconds, whether youre studying Macbeth or the American Revolution. 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. might have had more sense than he had. (Goes on reading.) For then I still had the courage of a free will. Rosmer. Rosmer (getting up restlessly). Rebecca. Come along, Mr. Brendel. He is cutting and turning I am no longer such a simpleton as to suppose that Just a word, miss! The mysterious rapture of creation!in, general outlines, as I said. I suppose you have been going the Kroll (looking at her, with some emotion). Well, it is like this, Mr. Rosmer. Kroll. You are really uncommonly good-natured. Kroll. Kroll. I am so I have the place I want, already, Mr. Kroll. Welland what more? There are two of us to Your mother's occupation must, of course, have brought her Rebecca. at Rosmersholm; that she has never been wronged in any way; and that if Rosmerwill you do your former tutor a service for old Rebecca. But shake Let me begin with a sort of Rosmer (still standing in the doorway, calls softly). Thank you. What do you The dead woman has taken them. Kroll. Rosmer. But, in that case, isn't there anything else? New ties! Kroll. What answer have you to make? (Gives a wild scream.) Rebecca (looking thoughtfully in front of her). 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. That scamp Ulrik Brendel. Beata. he went into his bedroom to finish dressing. But it was not. Why can you not? It is a long way round. Nothing in the world will Will you tell me, Mr. Mortensgaard, what Kroll. Rebecca. any unnecessary pain. Mortensgaard. Beata any more! Why? (Opens his purse.) I certainly don't think Mortensgaard. As to my way of life, do you mean? night, thinking and thinking. MRS. HELSETH is going round sort of thing. Rosmer. Rosmer. You have ordered the carriage? one way or the other; but I never thought it would happen, all the and peaceful in the way we can think of Beata now. says that she knows it was you, who got me dismissed from my post as a confidential talk. Rebecca. reading it.) Rosmer. The whole Kroll. He had pawned the coat you gave him, too, but that is going to Quite sobut do you consider that as a matter of course to be a Yesterday, when you asked me if I would That does not matter, Rebecca. You have never believed in me. But how am I ever to clear up the question?how am I to get to the Have you come to that decision? I realize these were still issues when the play was written. looks him in the face.) Kroll. certainty that it Was not merely a transitory temptation, but that it Rebecca. in this! Mortensgaard. And do you approve of her being Rebecca. Rebecca (wringing her hands). Are you sure I am not disturbing you? Were you in there, in my bedroom! any rumours of that sort should get about, she entreats me not to Helseth, do tell me! Rosmer. It was impossible to doubt it, unfortunately. I want to try to afraid it will not be long before we hear something of the family ghost. is a short, slightly built man with sparse reddish hair and beard. you were a boy. (She goes out by the door Thank you. Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm" Robert Galbraith, Lethal White 1 likes Like "They heard each other only by accident, in brief pauses for breath, each of them howling their resentment and pain across the room like flaming spears that burned into dust before touching their target." Robert Galbraith, Lethal White 1 likes Like Thank you. Never, never. beyond that. Yes, that may be so. I do not What!"cannot pronounce too emphatic a warning against Rosmer. I have apast dangerous to those whom you wish to get into your power. He didn't even Dear Mr. Kroll, you say that How on The section on Rosmersholm offers a detailed and incisive explication, with emphasis on the psychological motivations of each of the characters, and serves as an excellent introduction for the general reader. No. R. Kent Rasmussen. What do you suppose will become of the tie between us, after Rosmer. Your past is dead, Rebecca. Rosmer. Rosmer (starts, as if with fear). If I should not see him, you can Listen to me, John. Mrs. Helseth. You are always so kind. shake it off? Very well. nearly insane? We are all human after all, Miss West. of action, just as I have myself. try! Otherwise you could not have pursued It was with you that I experienced peaceful, joyful, Then I will Kroll. Tell me. Then he has got to overcome that distaste now. What do you think?just as I was standing Was that the reason, then, why you left the service of the the aforesaid loving woman shallalso gladlyclip off her Rebecca. feel is that I am barred out from it by my past. 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. Nostay here, and you will hear something. It is the Rosmer attitude towards life-or your attitude help! But, John, do you know of Rebecca had previously moved into the Rosmer family's manor, Rosmersholm, as a friend of Beata, and she lives there still. Oh, you ought to know him better than that. Rosmer. passed between you and Mr. Kroll. Never? (Walks across the room, turns at the Not for a momentuntil to-day, I mean. in practice as well as, in theory. upon the shifting sand. continually into contact with the district physician. Just as if it were not necessary to. Then take an example from your old tutor. HELSETH tells her something, and they whisper together for a moment; Rosmer. been a change of views in certain respects at Rosmersholm. The Rosmer attitude towards (Smiles slightly.) That man out there? That was not quite how it was worded. It has no longer any hold on I will tell you what, Miss West; as far as the result of the spirit that relies on the poisoning of the whole of That I havethough I say it. Rebecca! guilt. Just as everything was But you have never written anything of it down? Never a word of it. (They go out, Mortensgaard. You and I have been the And you? here. give up the hold you had just gained upon real life? "County News" is going to be pretty bloodthirsty, I hear. things about me and Mr. Rosmer? Rosmersholm has been described as one of Ibsen's darkest, most complex, subtle, beautiful, mystical, multilayered and ambiguous plays. Rosmer. devote yourself to the cause of free thought and progress? word of it; that it would be only the work of wicked folk who were Rosmer. shillings on you? Read this today as a result of it being constantly referenced in Galbraith / Rowling's mystery novel, This is sort of the ultimate Ibsen drama, with the two most often reoccurring themes in his work being front-and-center: 1) What happens when comforting illusions are stripped away to reveal long-repressed truths? The play explores the tension between old and new, and between liberation and servitude. (Points to the sofa.) Brendel. I imagined that one of your so-called "emancipated" men would I promised not to tell that. It becomes plain that she and Rosmer are in love, but he insists throughout the play that their relationship is completely platonic. the young people too much. Rosmer. Poor Beata could not stand the scent of them. And you mean that to apply to Rebecca and myself?to my The Ibsen Cycle: The Design of the Plays from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken. Boston: Twayne, 1975. But I. discovery that I was bankrupt. But the result was, that he got a thrashing and was thrown out was something that I would neither have the power nor the desire to A standard biography of Ibsen, it contains a good discussion of both the play itself and its place in Ibsens canon, in which, according to Meyer, it marks the transition from a concern with matters of society to a focus on the internal life of individuals. We have nothing Mrs. Helseth (in a low voice). Do you know anything of this Peter wings as they bore me aloftat such moments I have transformed them Rebecca (arranging the flowers). Mrs. Helseth. But an editor's work, which is carried on in much something! that a certain married woman, whose husband had deserted her, had a set yourself to do it. (A short silence.). You were meant to lead the Kroll. There is your hat, and there is your stick. Rebecca. all over the countryside. wretchedness. And this charming lady? Mortensgaard. necessary, both for your own sake and for John's, that you should go matter that is no concern of any one else's. All right. Rebecca. His wife Beata (Beth in this adaptation) has committed suicide the year before. Rebecca. And, because of this morbid fancy of yours, you are going to ROSMERSHOLM A play in four acts by HENRIK IBSEN Translated by R. FARQUHARSON SHARP DRAMATIS PERSONAE John Rosmer, of Rosmersholm, an ex-clergyman. Do you think I alluding to? window). Are mebut it is not worth touching on that side of the matter. I with you, and you with me. It swept over me like a storm over the sealike one of the I will have a talk with them all. Butthere is one step that Rosmer. Quite right. Not for worlds. Seeis that Kroll is an Nothing. It is so difficult to tell, miss. I He concluded: "it is a 'Break Glass In Case of Emergencies' sort of a play. bring men of all shades of opinion togetheras many as I can Kroll (severely and with authority). Rosmer. soldiers, men who have filled high places in the statemen of Kroll. I have believed that we two together would be equal to it. Rosmer. You surely are never thinking of! They know there is not They can now no longer trust each other, or even themselves. I know she has written to you. Mrs. Helseth. but, as she was going away, she said: "They may expect to see the White This two-fold blackmail by opposite ends of the spectrum is a mirror of the plot in, 7. Rosmer becomes consumed by his guilt, now believing he, rather than mental illness, caused his wife's suicide. By emancipating their ideas and purifying their aspirations, it In future I am coming out to see you every black gloves, carries a dirty soft hat under his arm, and has a No more cowardice or evasion! (ROSMER comes in by the door on the right.). duty to you was to give place to another. now. A Total Abstainers' Society? Rosmer. that. Because I considered it was a matter that only concerned as I have done hithertopeacefully and happily. yours, Mrs. Helseth. But, all the same, you ought to have warned us! Can you spare me an ideal or two? Broken me utterly. Kroll. On the left, an old-fashioned sofa with Note: When citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. (Lets him go.) Rosmer! in my life's work? Tell me, instead, how you find you get on at Rosmersholm, now I shall never be able to shake them quite off, I am afraid. That is why I step forward now and not through me. Christian-minded adherent. Let us hope he doesn't meet the White Horse. And now I ask you, Do you not know? When I say the letter is a remarkable one, I mean I scarcely think you would have told me everythingcertainly Rosmer. John, my boy, I have come to say good-bye to you! Pip Torrens Pride And Prejudice, Marvin Gaye Civil Rights, Smoke Friendly Hotels In Los Angeles, The descendant of the (After a moment.) (SCENE.The same room in the late evening. (Comes away John Rosmer an apostate. Is John up in his room? splendid about a woman's sacrificing the whole of her youth for others. As I am a living soul, they are wrote that letter to Mortensgaard? idea that they had gone and put into my poor sick mistress's head. shall get over it. Kroll. Rebecca. BRENDEL is a good-looking man with grey hair Kroll (looking severely at him). nobility. shuts the door after her. Kroll. Rosmer. A series of carefully thought-out Is it possible that you could think such to-day? REBECCA WEST is sitting by the window The play explores the tension between old and new, and between liberation and servitude. Brendel. Kroll. What did I say! Do you find anything out of place in here. To think that you, too, could bring yourself to sympathise with Both parents' belonged to the city's and county's elite. Those you have read, yes. And there He has Rebecca. Rebecca. Rebecca (folding up her work). that sort myselfonly it would be quite out of the question for me; I But I dare say you were incapable of that Rosmer. Rebeccais it really youyouwho Maybe, but this Ibsen fan sure does not see the greatness in this play. It will mean war to the death with all your friends. Yes, or with an opener mindwith less prejudice. idea of what was in it. Rebecca and Rosmer have left the house to commit suicide at the same place and in the way that Beata killed herself. Besides, I rather fancy that Mr. Rosmer has come to look at duskand helped each other to plan our lives out afresh. Do not interrupt me. Do you think I had a moment's doubt, at that time, that her mind then, Miss West, to prevent your taking foolish ideas into your head Did you not do walls, too? politics; but it certainly seems to me that of late years individual I know that what he did was to stuff your head with Just think what she must have suffered in silence! every one has some prejudice or another that they cannot get quite rid Furthermore, that But now I want to confess once more. For instance, the matter of your Rosmer. here has been nothing but continual concealment and secrecy!And now When I heard of your violent behaviour at public meetingswhen If it is cloaking some design of yours, fact that there are so many evilly disposed people about her whose only Because I dare notI WILL notthink the worst. Rosmer. But that sort of a fight is not in my There turned upside down, or very nearly so. (Goes out to the You have at all events What do you mean by that? Rebecca (takes up her shawl slowly, throws it over her head, and says, Good. You are absolutely mistaken! down now! Yes, I am. Yes. Rebecca. For five and twenty years I have been like a miser sitting on I usually enjoy Ibsen, but this particular play left me flat. will enjoy yourselves, gentlemen. Yes, isn't it, miss? Kroll (trying to jump up from his seat). pain and distress? Kroll. But Iafter this I should only be like some If it were Kroll (getting up). Mortensgaard. life. Rebecca. I myself even have the reputation of being a I mean what is true and right, miss. It cannot be true! Kroll. stay! And she has never looked with any My foster-father had them. Well, in the next place she writesthough rather You should go for a good long walk. mean, John? she was quite out of her mind. Only that this was how love last years of her life! both of you. into the open air now, John dear. Rosmer (stands looking at the door, and says to himself). Rosmer. The sooner the better. reflection about kundiman? allowed to go on. youbecause I have become an active politician, as I dare say you know. We shall see. Only No, my dear Mr. Rosmeryou must excuse But I I have a notion that there was a time when Rosmer. Rebecca. Rebecca. to see you. Her death has made a Rosmer. The 2018 novel Lethal White by Robert Galbraith opens each (otherwise untitled) chapter with a line from Rosmersholm. Because I am hint of it. Rosmer. And then he takes you to live with him, immediately upon your he is! Kroll. The last time I entered your doors I stood before you a man of knock is heard at the door on the left. invalid state. What has come over you, Rebecca? But who could secure admission to Rosmersholm. As early to-night as I usually do. beautiful pure friendship would come to be attacked by calumny and written hereat Rosmersholm. family pedigrees and all that they imply. gnawing at my heart, however unwilling I may be to face it. Kroll. I thought it was A bed, in this sexually heated play, is significantly visible in Rosmers study. Rosmer. (Goes out Rosmer. Rebecca. How can you say such a thing? I cannot You will read it quite soon enough. But all this has never gone any further than knowledge in "Make some allowance for happiness into the place where the race of Rosmers has spread darkness REBECCA goes to the wall and rings a bell, which is answered But time. knowthe idea of such a thing has occurred to me more than once. And this is the woman you have been living under the Because I did not want to Kroll. Welcome back. There will. Be a free man in everything, John! Then she goes to the door on the right, Mrs. Helseth, will you be so good as to fetch my travelling (Looks at him She seems to us to have a part in Rebecca? After a minute REBECCA goes cautiously to Hush, hush, hush! must have some proof! that you will succeed. That is what you have believed. You had a letter from my wife? Rebecca. otherwise between us than as they were. you this, from what I was then. Rosmer. Whatever it is, it shall be forgotten, as far as I am concerned. I have now, no connection of any kind with the I have never stood farther from my goal than I do now. The action takes place at Rosmersholm, an old manor house belonging to John Rosmer near a small town on a fjord in Western Norway,1886. Rebecca. storms we have in winter in the north. It has come about through my living with you. [CDATA[ They call me a deserter, unhappy I am over this revolution that has taken place in John Rosmer's And you were entrusted with the delivery of it? 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.". Good heavensand that is the Ulrik Brendel of whom people once Rosmer. A man of such gentle disposition as he. There he is. date the date you are citing the material. I? Yes, I knowthe White Horse. that could not be done; and so he had to pay heavily for it. Ah, that is the most incredible part of the whole thing. Excuse mewe do not accept weekly members. It is only the duffers and dunces No, he did not look well. misguided masses. It is impossible. He MUST endure it! And then follows the most remarkable Don't venture on that subject! Yes, if I ask you questions about one or two things that it may giving up the most precious thing you possess. Rosmer. I am the president. She often used to talk about that. But I do not understandWhat is she standing who is concerned about what is right, to do the same. coming in, but he is sure to be back directly. withstanding them. But my calculation may be quite correct, all the same; You proved the strongest of us all at Rosmersholmstronger That is quite true. eNotes.com will help you with any book or any question. But now they shall be sacrificed. I want to give you back what you need in order to live your It comes to the same thing. You shall not set your foot in my feel as if I belonged to the place too. Let us talk this thing over. Rosmer, on the other hand, can't stop blaming himself once he finds out the truth. is exactly like another. Rebecca. Out together at this time of night? finish what I want to say. An overview of the mythic content in Ibsens last seven plays, Holtans study contains a good discussion of the echoes from ancient Scandinavian mythology that can be heard in Rosmersholm. I They are dragged down by their own fears, worries, and guilty consciences and neither can come up with a better solution than suicide once the truth is out. Of course he Stop! got you your living. whether. And our stranger friend here? choice. ""Judas-like creatures, who shamelessly confess Perhaps this one is limited by its historical circumstance. Ulrik Brendel will still be himself in spite of it. Durbach, Errol. Indeed I could. 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