One character in this work rails against the "scandalous coarseness" of the so-called "nature's gentlemen" who appears clad in rags after crossing a wooden bridge.
One character in this work rails against the "scandalous coarseness" of the so-called "nature's gentlemen" who appears clad in rags after crossing a wooden bridge. The male protagonist is rejected over his break with the church by a "man without ideals" who has founded an upstart newspaper. The creepy housekeeper Mrs. Helseth hauntingly narrates the final moments of this work, which features the recurring image of a spectral (*) white horse. This play is set against the backdrop of an emerging liberal party supported by Ulrik Brendel and opposed by the protagonist's brother-in-law Kroll, who accuses him of complicity in the suicide of his wife Beata. Johannes leaps into the mill stream to drown himself along with Rebecca West to close, for 10 points, what play by Henrik Ibsen set at the titular estate?
One character in this work rails against the "scandalous coarseness" of the so-called "nature's gentlemen" who appears clad in rags after crossing a wooden bridge.
Rosmersholm