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Happiness and duty in Ibsen's brand

Happiness and duty in Ibsen's brand Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities 3:1 1998 n the flyleaf of a copy of Brand (1866) Opresented to a little girl on her first birth- day, Ibsen wrote the following dedication: "May your life be a poem wrought / In the reconcilia- tion of 'happy' and 'ought'." Apart from the many wide-ranging questions that this dedication gathers to itself, it is deserving of attention for a more pedestrian reason: Ibsen wrote it in 1896, the year he completed his penultimate work John Gabriel Borkman, which suggests firstly that even with the benefit of three decades' distance from the work, he still considered it a suitable dedication; secondly that the two constituent ele- ments of the "good life" that the couplet posits, "happiness" and "duty" were sustaining features of his tragic vision. anne-marie stanton-ife This paper will argue that the entire range of conflicts and tensions on which Ibsen's dramatic oeuvre is predicated consistently collapses into this HAPPINESS AND question of the putative harmonising of happiness and duty, and will offer a reading of Brand which DUTY IN IBSEN'S will demonstrate how this elusive reconciliation BRAND precisely defines the hero's agonistic struggle. One of the more important questions which http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

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Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities 3:1 1998 n the flyleaf of a copy of Brand (1866) Opresented to a little girl on her first birth- day, Ibsen wrote the following dedication: "May your life be a poem wrought / In the reconcilia- tion of 'happy' and 'ought'." Apart from the many wide-ranging questions that this dedication gathers to itself, it is deserving of attention for a more pedestrian reason: Ibsen wrote it in 1896, the year he completed his penultimate work John Gabriel Borkman, which suggests firstly that even with the benefit of three decades' distance from the work, he still considered it a suitable dedication; secondly that the two constituent ele- ments of the "good life" that the couplet posits, "happiness" and "duty" were sustaining features of his tragic vision. anne-marie stanton-ife This paper will argue that the entire range of conflicts and tensions on which Ibsen's dramatic oeuvre is predicated consistently collapses into this HAPPINESS AND question of the putative harmonising of happiness and duty, and will offer a reading of Brand which DUTY IN IBSEN'S will demonstrate how this elusive reconciliation BRAND precisely defines the hero's agonistic struggle. One of the more important questions which

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Published: Apr 1, 1998

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