At the end of this play, one character laments that his destiny is "to be thirteenth at table." Anothercharacter in this play notes that a "big clock with figures that go out and in" has stopped counting time,before noting that a book which "must be a hundred years old" contains a picture of a woman standing nextto Death holding an hourglass. One character in this play medicalizes the idea of spiritual treatment withthe idea of the "life-illusion
At the end of this play, one character laments that his destiny is "to be thirteenth at table." Anothercharacter in this play notes that a "big clock with figures that go out and in" has stopped counting time,before noting that a book which "must be a hundred years old" contains a picture of a woman standing nextto Death holding an hourglass. One character in this play medicalizes the idea of spiritual treatment withthe idea of the "life-illusion," which entices the alcoholic theology student Molvik. A daughter in this play's"tableau of filial affection," who is going blind from a hereditary condition, may actually be the child ofHakon Werle. For 10 points, identify this play, in which the title creature lives in an artificial grottoconstructed in Hjalmar Ekdal's home, written by Henrik Ibsen.
At the end of this play, one character laments that his destiny is "to be thirteenth at table."
The Wild Duck [or Vildanden]