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This 3 page paper discusses the ways in which characters in Ibsen's early plays "The Vikings of Helgeland" and "The Feast at Solhoug" are "first drafts" of characters that appear in his later works. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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playwright may create a character in one play only to refine and develop that character further in later works. Such is the case with Henrik Ibsen. This paper argues that
the characters of Margit and Gudmund Alfson in The Feast at Solhoug are closely related to Hedda Gabler and Eilert L?vborg in Hedda Gabler; and that Sigurd and Dagny, and
Hiordis from The Vikings of Helgeland are the forerunners of Nora and Torvald of A Dolls House, though their positions are reversed in the later play. Discussion The Feast at
Solhoug is one of Ibsens earliest plays and far from his best. Much of it is written in verse, and the poetry seems forced and stilted, though that could be
the translation in addition to the text itself. Still, in this early play we can see the beginnings of what will be one of the iconic characters in theater, Hedda
Gabler. Here, the character is Margit, wife of Bengt Gauteson, the Master of Solhoug. As in the later play, Margit has not found what she wants in her marriage to
Gauteson, and like Hedda, she is in love with someone else. Margit loves Gudmund Alfson and Hedda loves Eilert L?vborg; in the first play she at least survives when he
leaves, but in Hedda, both Eilert and Hedda die. In his introduction to The Feast at Solhoug, which came in for its share of criticism, Ibsen himself refers to
the Icelandic sagas. He says that he wrote Lady Inger of Ostrat in 1854, and that compelled him to do a lot of research into the Middle Ages in Norway
(Ibsen). He found little to help him with his research, and so found himself turning to the Icelandic sagas instead (Ibsen). But the "Sagas of the Kings" did not attract
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