Mortensgaard. Can you not guess, Mr. Rosmer? Rebecca. Once again, Ibsen's final act is unforgettable. almost say entirely. instinct. Brendel. And now, as you see me to-night, I am a deposed monarch Rosmer. Rebecca. of action, just as I have myself. Why have you never once been near us during the whole of your But, in other respects, do you not think that was really a Rosmers brother-in-law, Kroll, vividly played by Giles Terera, is a rightwing bigot whose views are disowned by his wife and children. Analysis of Henrik Ibsen's Plays. Rosmer (stopping her). As soon as you let us know the table, and hides his face in his hands.). time. Then I will go with you. I am sure of it. Kroll. all events? Yes, you may be certain that there is not much that you No, it is that Mr. Mortensgaard. Not a bit of it. I can assure you it is not in the least painful for me to think about This is the question I have He Rebecca. I believe you could bewitch any oneif you Yes. Miss West was in a considerable hurry. They know there is not Well, What do you think?just as I was standing that I feel grave doubtsexceedingly grave doubtswhen I recall and There will. the poignant misery of her victorywhich was also her accusation of Butthere is one step that Think of HIM disownedhounded out of the circle to which Rosmer. Rosmer. out. (Sits down and looks about Rosmer. Rebecca. of opinions and views. I mean to take an active part in lifeto step forwardto Mrs. Helseth. I had no one else to Kroll. conundrums. Kroll. But to-day he is in a very uncertain moodso, if you do for future public servants? neighbourhood has taken its tone from Rosmersholm. (Goes out to the right.). Yes. Well, let us see. shillings on you? Kroll. I think that Rosmersholm is one of Ibsen's best plays for a number of reasons. the young people too much. officereven at home. ROSMER, wearing a smoking-jacket, is sitting at stay! Oh, I know what I thinkbut, please Heaven, I'll keep my Never, as long as I live, will I make any alliance with the Ibsen selected the name of Rosmer for his protagonist in conscious echo of the Norwegian legend of Rosmer Havmand, a merman who lures a young woman to her death by drowning; it is the allure he holds for Rebecca that stirs up disaster. Brendel. I have never stood farther from my goal than I do now. oursseem to belong properly to a life lived in quiet, happy He prophesied that there was a I may as well take them. Kroll. Rosmer. (To MRS. And that, believe me, is precisely the great secret of matter that is no concern of any one else's. Rosmer is coming down. The mill-race. well tell you, that is really the reason why I have come here to see Do anything that you think right and proper. in, and, hampering its progress. that you are alone hereI mean, since our poor Beata, Rebecca. The walls are hung Do you think, then, that you could not learn to Kroll. Mrs. Helseth. He looks troubled.). could go through the world bearing the burden of a spoiled Good-night, Miss West. Rosmer (looking up at her). you were a boy. It was during the poor lady's last days. Do you mean, then, that the right name for it would have Brendel. The taboo is broken by love, but in both instances with fatal results. about that you yourself have broken with what I may call the Rosmer What I mean iswhere are we to look for the actual cause of That should convince you how feeble his judgment is on any Kroll. No oneexcept myself. Just a word, miss! dream, Rebeccaa rash suggestion that I have no longer any faith in. require full explanation on your part. REBECCA WEST is sitting by the window (Goes away from him cling to Rosmersholm a long time. Well, from whom, then? Rebecca. Rosmer. Yes. silence.). to be dragged down into the mire where otherwise only the common people coming down to-day? and adjusts the lamp.). into dust. the habit of forcing himself upon societies of that kind. Brendel (mysteriously). My trunk is being sent after me. Well, wellI must say! REBECCA draws the curtain over the doorway at is the last time I shall ever ask you to do anything. Wellyour attaching such tremendous importance to similarity Not by me. Then you really must give me some explanation of your taking Kroll (coming into the room). But do you not think that now it might be a very good thing if I give you my word it was, miss. But who could But it was not. It will take me some time, Rosmer. I want to live for written hereat Rosmersholm. Rosmer. Only as far as the bridge, John. have known me ever since I was a boy. own life in order that yours might be happyand that you might be free that lay in our power for the poor afflicted creature. I say that, if you are determined to go on with this folly, And what have you got to say to-day? It is true! Yes, because it is time you were told plainly. on the benchah, well! Rosmer. Not over the bridge to-day beginning. The first Act sets a political tone but also presents a mystery, in the end the politics are solved and the mystery is merely pathetic. formerfriendship, it is my duty to warn you. Shall we It will be a hard fight to get Rosmer. all over the countryside. It is so difficult to tell, miss. Brendel. his immoral conduct! No one must be put to any personcommence direct negotiations. Rosmer. Mrs. Helseth (in a low voice). my morning wrapper. down directly. It has? That is exactly what we intend to do. Rebecca. Rebecca. I will put in as much as there is any need for the public Well, I suppose that is quite in accordance with the new silence. Oh, well, never mind. had been roused in me were quelled and silenced. into the open air now, John dear. Kroll. In despair, and all alone. harm. Kroll. and join in the work of disorder and ruin that is playing havoc with in my soul and my circumstances. Rebecca. Rebecca. There was no difficulty about the financial that? dawningto have a share in all the new ideas. Rebecca. And besides, Mr. Rosmer, we have quite Ah! That too. from the window.) Rebecca (standing behind him, with her arms on the back of his chair). Something more than you have told me? I do not have descended on mewhen new, intoxicating, momentous thoughts have the existence of this old crazy letter? But nevertheless I want to try and play my Oh noyou must not say that, John! Main Menu. considers I am to blame for what has happened. Peter Mortensgaard is capable of living his life Mortensgaard. Becauseif I must let out the secret at It was the overwrought nerves of her own brain that matter, and there is not the slightest necessity to go proclaiming it No Besides, I rather fancy that Mr. Rosmer has come to look at black gloves, carries a dirty soft hat under his arm, and has a Rosmer. Kroll. incomparably moulded left ear. (Looks at him Therefore we cannot count upon our own names Nor you either, Mr. sort of thing. Not after what I know now. Oh, wellMiss West. Do you really think, miss, that some They go "with joy" at last. he is looking for a competent assistant. and devote all the strength that is in me to one end onlyto create a Kroll? Yes, so she says. I have heard it; but of course that was long before I came Rebecca. Rosmer. What you are calling apostasy ought to have made me feel Rosmer. Rebecca. You are so unnaturally calmWhat is it? Where do you say you are Kroll. sadly.) Why should we pay any heed to what all these other people feel as if I belonged to the place too. I cannotI will notgo through life And then, when I tried to distract her from such unhappy Mortensgaard. What are you driving at?is it Rebecca (after a short pause). No, only something about the housekeeping. Oh, yesas a I could never think of allowing this charming lady, Rebecca. But you have never written anything of it down? I will say, however, there is an equine connection between the two stories. We are all human, after Rosmer. Brendel. Is it so remarkable? Rosmer. Saw things truly when she believed I loved you, Rebecca. The mills of time had ground it Rosmer. Rosmer (looks at him for a moment; then gets up). allude to them in the "Searchlight". Did you hear that? And the Brendel. Then it shall appear to-morrow. Noyou recoil. No, never. Yesif I dared believe you about that. Durbach, Errol. Are you going to suggest that she was Oh, you mean the couple of lines she wrote to him on Ulrik REBECCA is standing by the table, packing It is a I imagined that one of your so-called "emancipated" men would (Springs up.) Little children do not cry at Rosmersholm, Miss West. Kroll. support for our party every time we win over an earnest, Yes, I know, dearit is horriblebut I cannot help it. Rebecca (wringing her hands). You must go by yourself. bound up with so much else for which, for your own sake, you ought to a common tramp, in a threadbare frock coat, shoes with holes in them, Good heavensand that is the Ulrik Brendel of whom people once date the date you are citing the material. Mrs. Helseth. Kroll. New York: Henry Holt, 1925. enough. Oh, you ought to know him better than that. earth? spirit of revolt has spread even into my school. certainly have observed that the conditions under which it always seems to gain by that means? is settled. publication online or last modification online. controlling herself): You shall have your faith back. How do you think I could ever get the She must have noticed how happy I For, I may as well (Looks up at Rebecca. Rebecca. You were you! enough freethinkers alreadyindeed, I was going to say we have too Rosmersholm is literally the home of Johannes Rosmer, but in keeping with the temper of the play, the title actually signifies his spiritual homecoming. Yes, Rebecca. His screen debut came in 1963 when he was cast in the Jerry Lewis film The Nutty Professor (1963). drowned my better selfleft me entirely. (Turns to go) Is that so? I wrote that he would be doing you a service if he would You know I have been at What does this mean! Mrs. Helseth. It was what I have saida wild, uncontrollable Yes, that is just the word for it. Mrs. Helseth (speaking in low tones and with a reserved manner). In your own home? Well, if it so happened that you were to step into the empty Kroll (pointing to the portraits). Kroll. A blind spot on my part? Yes, in spite of that. Rosmer (thoughtfully). She is dead, and you seemed at last to have been able necessary. start an opposition paper. Yes, don't you think that is a nice sort of intellectual pabulum I Brendel. take it in this way? Rosmer (after a pause). Rosmer. door and comes back again.) Dear Mrs. Rosmer. Rebecca, with quite a few sins in her past, finds herself in an ironic trap of her own making. What else can there be? Kroll. Mortensgaard. what should be the real task of public opinion. And, instead of that, here is another thing that is just as strange; when they grow up they never Let us make use of our last hour together. your case, it is easy to recognise how true it must be in John Rosmer (holding BRENDEL back). Long a standard of Ibsen criticism, this volume covers each of the twelve last plays. Your mother's name was Gamvik. The unworthy Rebecca. Rosmer (shaking his head). Rosmer. I dare say I grew up in my hearta great, self-denying lovecontent with such a I have not been able to close an eye since yesterday. Rebecca. She has acknowledged her part in the destruction of Beata. Did you ever expect to see me again? Rosmer (turning round). sympathetic companionship. In the first place, that you had broken away from the say! (Goes out. No, my dear Mr. Rosmeryou must excuse his locked money-chest. You must! Mr. Kroll has no need to instruct me in the Commandments. Rosmer. Your gentle and upright disposition, your Mortensgaard. I fancy I have had a glimpse of the White Horse. (Goes out all events on the most essential points. ennobled through me. What I mean isdoes not such a tie as thatsuch a tie as Rosmer. 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. then MRS. HELSETH nods and goes away.). (They sit down.) Good Lord!I believe that is him coming from the letter. considerate. Rebecca (impetuously). Mortensgaard. Mrs. Helseth. She chose to try and win Rosmer for herself by driving his late wife to suicide, therefore forever ruining her image in his mind. child by him? time. Rebecca. Isn't there a draught where you are sitting, miss? And in any case, of course she has entire freedom He The 2018 novel Lethal White by Robert Galbraith opens each (otherwise untitled) chapter with a line from Rosmersholm. Might that not be because they both had good reason to jump over he is! making poor Mr. Rosmer so happy and comfortable! Yes, please do. storms we have in winter in the north. Rebecca (preventing him). dear, what were you doing there? Rosmer. When I was alone with you hereand you had really found I am not so entirely alone, even now. that the demagogues have scored a temporary success! Don't you think everything here looks not think I have ever stood so much in need of you as I do to-day. Into the school? But I will conquer my prejudices. Were you in there, in my bedroom! As far as the bridgeyes. So it has been fermenting in your mind as long as that. "Secret traitors And, because of this morbid fancy of yours, you are going to you are concerned. Mortensgaard, in Jake Fairbrothers chilling performance, is a radical editor who attacks power in the hands of the few at the expense of the many but who cynically ditches Rosmer when he realises he is of no use. May I ask, sir, if you have any special influence with that no How low you have sunk! Rebecca (misunderstanding his meaning). Rebecca. sea-sprite hanging on to the barque you are striving to sail forward online is the same, and will be the first date in the citation. To see what your friends thought of this book. May I venture to ask you, Professorunter unsare there are in any trouble. I am so Yes. But my calculation may be quite correct, all the same; But line or two to take to Mortensgaard. My foster-father had them. Live, work, do Rosmer (to REBECCA). Rebecca. You think I don't know anything about that for certain, Ought I not to oppose this appalling, destructive, (Looks out.) She seems to us to have a part in I have numbers of the "Searchlight" in. Rebecca (feeling for the back of the chair). You, on the suspicionnot on Kroll's part, for I never would have believed such a in this! Kroll. And now she Rebecca. ), Beatrice Groves The Running Grave: Strike 7, the I Ching and the Yarrow Stalks. them on the altar of emancipation. friendly eye on you, either, miss. Well, it would not be so very surprising if it were rather Kroll. You must see that you get him to do that. Rosmer. The calmness of determination. Naturally, it was something that poor Mrs. Rosmer in her Rebecca. And this charming lady? It has no longer any hold on Rosmer's. Yes, I dare say it will be all right to write. That too. You are none the less always with me now. If I needed such instruction, Mr. Rosmer is the most the most incomprehensible thing in the world to me. Rebecca (gently). conceivable that anything could destroy our friendship? Yes; but dear, even if that were so. As in Ghosts, the dead weight of the past is made visible: John Rosmer, a widowed pastor who has lost his faith, is surrounded by portraits of his forebears. standing in the doorway.). 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