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SOLNESS:I must tell you--I have begun to be afraid of the younger generation
HILDA:Pooh--Is the younger generation something to be afraid of?
SOLNESS:It is indeed.And that is why I have locked and barred myself in.I tell you the younger generation will one day come and thunder at my door!They will break in upon me!
HILDA:Then I should say you ought to go out and open the door to the younger generation.
SOLNESS:Open the door?
HILDA:Yes.Let them come in to you on friendly terms,as it were.
SOLNESS:Open the door?
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Harvard Solness,the master builder,has become the most successful architect in his home town by a fortunate series of coincedences for him which were the chance misfortunes of his competitors.He powerfully wished for them to come to pass,but never actually did anything about them.
''A frock-coated realism'' lies within the play.
The tragedy of an elderly architect who falls of his scaffold while trying to show off before a young lady.
Another aspect would be : that the play is lyrical/poetic at the same time:
-The master builder's belief in his powers at their face value - in the manner of ''Peer Gynt'' travelling the Earth in his magical adventures while the faithful Solveig waits for his return.
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The Master Builder is a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and was first published in December 1892.
Starring Naomi Watts and Ben Stiller, ''While We Were Young'' , introduced me to Ibsen's one of the most significant and revealing works.
Remembering Faust , it gave me an overview about how we reach to other people and how we connect to them ; and how important our values truly are?
Do we truly own and stand up for our personal values or do they float through our words in the air - as we seem to be too busy showing off ; highlighting our ''good deeds''?
Elderness used to mean ''being humble'' to me. That way I could tolerate the manners of the individuals of my social circle.I would always say: It will eventually get better.We - the ''younger'' generation- will eventually evolve in that matter too.Why not? Collecting memories won't come alone. But apparently I was mistaken.With age comes wisdom.But with also that coming,comes a whole new package of ''EGO'',the greatest enemy of human nature.
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