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This 5 page paper discusses the theme of the conflict of youth and age in Ibsen’s play “The Master Builder.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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matter allows him to present issues to his audiences that he could not have tackled openly: the syphilis that destroys the family in Ghosts, for instance, is not a subject
that would have been tolerated at the time. But even there, the symbolism is less dense and more easily deciphered than it is here. This paper discusses the theme of
the antagonism between youth and age in the play; specifically the relationship between Solness and Hilda. Discussion As in all of Ibsens works, its up to the audience to "fill
in the blanks" with regard to the real motives and actions of his characters. He never comes out and says directly that Solness is not a model husband; he lets
us infer that from the things Solnesss wife says, and from the mans desire to keep his young secretary, Kaia, in his employment. However, that desire is soon transferred to
another young woman, Hilda. The people around Solness are stifled by the presence of the "master builder" himself, who mesmerizes Kaia, ruins the two Broviks, and has little time
or sympathy for his wife Aline, who drifts through the play like a ghost or an echo (Herford, 1909). His world is strangely colorless and so the arrival of Hilda
is compared to the arrival of a "radiant apparition" (Herford, 1909, p. 283). Hilda, says Herford, is "one of the strangest of Ibsens company of strange women; a figure hovering
perpetually between reality and romance" (Herford, 1909, p. 283). But along with her arrival she brings "the very genius of youth, ready to take the world by storm, indomitably confident
of its power and of its right, getting its end by the completeness of its faith, and little heeding the disasters it occasions or inflicts on the way" (Herford, 1909,
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