The wild Duck The wild Duck

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Drama
The wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen .
Plot
There is adinner party in Hakon werle's house for the return of his son , Gregers ,form Hoidal mines and who has not come for fifteen years .
Old Ekdal appears before two servants, begging to let into the office .
Ekdal was anarmy officer and partner to Werle until a forstry scandal sent him to prison ,now he works at Werle .His son ,Hialmar Ekdal(Hajmar) is looking sad because there are thirteen seats in the table and that Gregers did not invite him .
He said that Werles helps him begin his photographg studio and helps him to marry .
His wife Gina , worked in Werle's house during the last year of Mrs Werle's illness .
Gregers talks about his father's interest in Gina and that his mother revealed it in her deathbed.
At Hialmar's studio ,Gregers appears chatting with Ekdals .
Gregers asks Hialmar about his daughter Hedvig, Hialmar said That she is going blind .Gregers observes a fowl Lying in abasket, a wild duck that belongs to Hedvig.The family won the duck when Werles wounded it in a hunting. Gregers insisted to talk about Ekdals' Spare room, he will be like the Wild duck himself because his room is in the garret, Hialmar decided to redeem the family's name because his father was avictim of Mr Werle who Was the cause of passing the scandal onto old Ekdal .It seems that Hilmar
Like the wild duck,dived into apoisonous marsh.At the same time ,Relling and MolviK appear .Relling knows Gregers from the Hoidal works where they had a few skirmishes . Hedvig appears at the door, she has recieved a birthday gift from Werle . Hialmar tears the birthday letter in half and places it on the table . He left her and parted Hialmar slept and snoring and Relling gave him a cure {livslognen} {life.illusion}Hialmar enters and Gina asks him if he is still leaving.He said he planned to take Ekdal with him and not to stay among those traitors . Hedvig enters , takes a pistol from the f and creep into the garret and killed herself.


Characters
1) Gregers werle
pronounced (grayghers verle ) .
He is the idealistic son of Hakon werles.
He returned to avenge his father's crimes against the Ekdal family .
He always speaks in a language of forgiveness and confession .
Finally ,when he realizes that he has failed to redeem his friends , he will make a melancholic exit from a world in which he is in a sense has no place .
2)Hialmar Ekdal
Or(Hajmar) pronounced (yalmar aydal He is atalent , handsome and sympathetic voice .
He dreams of restoring his family name to honor .
3)Hedvig Ekdal
the Ekdals' fourteen –year _old daughter .
She is the play most sad one, innocent and victimized child.
She is un certain of her parentage belonging either to Hialmar or Werle.
She is like the duck, not certain of origins .
She is marked by an incipient blindness ,adegenerative eye disease .
4)Relling
Hialmar's long time antagonist from the Hoidal.
He is cynical and Christian logic.
5)Hakon werle
Awealthy industrialist who is responsible for the ruin of his former partner old Ekdal and his family.
Werle has attempted to make a mends by becoming the Ekdal's provider.
He also hides his relation with Hialmar's wife Gina and facilitate their marriage to avoid public scandal.
6)Old Ekdal
The victim of Werle's betrayal. He suffers public disgrace years ago and ta booed figure.
At home ,he wears his old military uniform to remind those days.
7)Gina Ekdal
pronounced (cheena)
Ekdal's wife and the former house servant of the werles .
She has suppressed her past with werle to ensure the survival of her marriage.

8)Bretha Sorby
Werle's housekeeper and fiancée.
She is acharming and sociable woman .
She believes that she and Werle build their marriage on a foundation of truth and honesty.
9)molvik
He is a like Relling ,is atenant who lives below the Ekdals.
Adrunken student of theology .
10) graberg
pronounced (groberg)
were's book keeper.
11) pettersen
werle's servant.
12)Jensen pronounced (yensen)
A waiter who appears at the dinner party .
Theme
1:The claim of the ideal and the life illusion
Gregers and Relling are rivals.
Gregers seeks forgivness and confession from the family that his father was insulted and made problems.
Relling also tries to solve the problem by his was .
Gregers suffers from the integrity fever and tries to be ideal and fair .
2: the romantic hero
The romantic hero is Hialmar who is fickled and melodramatic.
His hansomeness, cleverness, talent and sympathetic voice made him appear as the great light of the future .
He waits the time to avenge his father and his family from werle.
3)the myth of the fathers
The action of the play is the struggle of the father.Werel and Ekdal are two known families ,but werle passes his scandal on Ekdal. Werle is a bad father and Ekdal is ideal father but he become a victim to a plot done by werle and looses his respect for years.
Motifs
1-light\dark
The opposition light/dark are central motifs of the play .
These motifs include sight and blindness , ideal and vulgar , truth and lie .
Gregers is not like his father and wants to be forgiven .He has a light of redemption.
2- the garret and studio
Hialmar's studio is the central playing space .
Most of the events happened there .
The garret is for the father and also there is a garret for the Wild duck which is gloomy and separate.It is the place where Hedvig Killed herself.
(symbols)
The duck considered a quilting point for the characters fantasies of themselves and around them . Gregers imagines himself a dog that rescue the wounded bird . Hedvig is as the wild duck that she looses her family and place of origin.

Act(1),part(1)
Summary
The play opens in the richly furnished house of mr werle .
It is the evening of a dinner party celebrating the return of werle's son , Gregesrs from the Hoidal mines and who hasnot come home for fifteen years .
The dinning room is at the left and to the right ,there is a baize which leads to werle's office. Pettersen , aservant , and Jensen , ahired waiter ,put the room inorder .
Suddenly ,Oid Ekdal enters wearing a thread bare over coat and adirty red _brown wig , coming from the right begging to be let into the office.
Pettersen lets him pass and tells him not to appear infront of the guests .
Pettersen told the waiter that Ekdal was once an army officer and partner to werle and that he played some dirty trick on werle and went to prison , now he works as one of werle's copyists .
Mrs Sorby sends the servants to prepare a coffee in the music room.Hailmar tells about his live after his father's disgrace and that werle tells him to leave the University and helped him begin his photography studio and made it possible for him to marry .
Hialmar's wife Gina , worked in werle's house during the last year of Mrs werle's illness.
Although Gregers recieved news regularly but he did not know these events .Werle tells his son to share him his toast but When the son does not move, he Invited Hialmar Instead. Suddenly , Graberg , The book keeper ,Appears at the baize door to exit because he has been locked in then old Ekdal Appears After him but Hialmar ignores him .
Act(1)part(2)
Ekdal Apologizes And went Away. Gregers promises Hialmar to visit him but Hialmor forbids him to come to his house.Gregers asks how the Ekdals have come to ruin and if the Old Ekdal Was to blame for the forestry scandal.His Father said that he was Found guilty and that He helped him and also when he gets out From Prison,a broken man . Gregers also asks his father about his sudden interest of the Ekdal's son and Gina . Grgers suspects his father has arelation with Gina and that his mother tells him about his father's betrayal to him on her deathbed .Gregers leaves the house saying that finally he sees his mission in life and those guests are {blind man's bluff}.

….act (2)part (1)
In Hialmar's studio ,Gina sits at atable sewing,Hedvig reads on the sofa,her hand,shading her eyes and her thumbs stuffed in her ears.Gina glanced at her daughter with secret
anxiety and commands her to stop reading .Hedving thinks fondly of her father at the werle's dinner and his promise to bring back her a gift .Old Ekdal enters and prepares to dirnk cognac peterssen gave him .Hialmar enters and reports on the party .He tells his father that he did not see him but decided to come home after informed that he had passed .Ekdal and Hedvig buzz around Hialmar ,takes off his coat and Hedvig compliments his dress- coat then Hedvig searches his jacket for her gift but he had forgotten her.Hialmar expresses his love to his family and plays his flute and dance with them .
Gregers knocks the door and Gina opens .Hedvig runs to bring beer for him .
Gregers asks about Hedvig and Hialmar says that she is suffering form ahereditary eye disease and she may loose her eyesight .
Gina suspects his questions.



Act(2)………part(2)
Old Ekdal , Hialmar and Headvig push the door sliding and Gregers watches .
Adeep garret filled with irregular nooks and crannies appears through the open door ,moon beams shine through the skylights , lighting parts of the room while leaving other parte in shadow.
Ekdal inviters Gregers to look who observes poultry,pigeons ,rabbits and fowel lying in a basket.
Ekdal pointed to a duck and said it is aspecial duck ,a wild duck that belongs to Hedvig .
They owned it when werle Hakon wound it on ahunting ,when shot ,she(the duck) dived on the bottom in and angled herself in the sea weed in attempt to escape but werle's clever dog brings it .
The duck is heavy and making flight impossible .
She(the duck) lives in the garret so long and has forgotten her natural habit .Gregers prepares to leave .
Hialmar tells Gina that everything works out if you "keep your eges open ".
He pledges to fullfil his mission in life and <restone the honor of the family name> .
111) …PART ( 1))ACT…
In the morning ,in Hialmar's studio ,he sits retouching aphotogrph and Gine enters with a covered basket and said that Gregers had made amess of his room .
Hialmar invites Gregers to lunch and Relling and Molvik the tenants downstairs will probably come .
Gregers comes and asked Hedvig if the wild duck slept well last night and Hedvig said that she letf school to protect her eges and she always Spends much time in the garret with the wild duck.
The garret is filled with books an old bureau and abroken clock.
Gregers said that {time} has to come to astandstill there in the wild duck domain .
Hedvig said that this garret is a treasure and previously it was belong to a firmer tenant, an old sea captain dubbed {the flying Dutchman} .
Suddenly, ashot comes out from the garret and Hialmar emerges with his {pig stol }pistol to see what happens.



(111) part….(11) act…
Gregers asks if Hilmar Leaves the work for Gina when he sees her at the studio all the time.
Gregers when saw Hialmar talks about the garret, remarks that Hialmar has something of the wild duck in him .
He has dived into a poisonous marsh, a disease has over taken him and he is sure to die .
Gina and hedvig bring lunch and Relling and Molvik appear. Relling said that Molvik was drunk last night and that he is prone to demonic pemonic possessions .
Aknock heared at the door and Werle Hakon appears ,he takes his son a side for aprivate talk .
Gregers announces his mission to open Hialmar's eyes and show him his position asit realy is .
He wishes to rescue Hialmar from the falsehoods that are beging him to ruin and Gregers feels quilty because he failed to do that and to save Ekdal from his father .
Werle informs him that as he is remarrying, Gregers's property will fall to him and Gregers refused it .


Act…(iv)….part…(1)
It is dusk in the studio, Gina stands in the doorway ,Hedvig enters and they wonder why Hialmar has yet to return from his walk with Gregers.
Hialmar returns and refuses
dinner offered from Gina and he pledges not to sit into the garret again.
He said he wants to wring the wild duck's neck and when he heard hedvig cries in horror , he promises to leave it .
He is angry that his father was paid by Hakon Werle and Gregers tells him everything.
He also asks Gina if she is Werle's concubine.
Gina confessed that when she was serving at Werle's house ,he approaches her but she refused and Werle's wife drove her out of the house .Gregers enters and find the weather is bad in the house.Relling enters and denounces Gregers as a quack .He said no marriage is based on the claims of the ideal.Suddenly ,Mrs Sorby appears at the door to say goodbye to Gina as she and Werle are moving to the Hoidal tomorrow.Gregers reveals their marriage plans. Relling wishing her happiness because he had a relation with her previously.When Gregers threats to tell his father, Sorby tells him that they confessed all their secrets to each other .
Act... (iv]part..[2]
Hialmar says that Hakon Werles and Mrs Sorby's union revolts his sense of justice.Hialmar said that Werle is going to be blind and this is aretribution from God of his bad doing .Hedvig appears and passed Sorby on her way out and recieved a birthday gift from Werle .Hialmar reads the letter in which Werle promises a monthly income to old Ekdal which will pass on to Hedvig upon his death.Gregers warns that Werle is trying to buy him off. Hialmar tears the letter in halt and places it on the table .he said to Gina that Werle facilitated their marriage for fear of scandal. Gina said that she doesnot know .Hialmar said that he has no longer has aplace in his house. Gregers insists that the family must be together to attain [true frame of mind for self-sacrifice and forgivness}Hedvig wonders why her father nolonger wants her and wheather it is because she is not his child she reminds them of Hialmar threat to kill the duck. She has prayed for the duck's safety every night .Gregers suggests that Hedvig sacrifice the duck to prove her love for her father. Hedvig decides to ask grand father to shoot it. Gina returns and said that Hialmar has gone with Relling and Molvik.



Act…[v]part…[1]
It is a gold ,grey morning at the studio. A snow storm roars outside . Gina is doing house work when Hedvig rushes through the door .she is certain Hialmar is not there .Old Ekdal enters in a dressing gown and the women tell him that Hailmar has gone.Relling said that Hialmar is downstairs snoring on his sofa .Gregers thinks himself as [a stone-bling ]as Relling believes .Relling disagrees and said that gregers is sick and suffers from [integrity fever] and [delirium of hero-worship]. Gregers sighs in pity''''Ekdal has narrowed the ideals of his youth ''''. Hedvig enters and asks Ekdal how can one shoot a duck. He explained and went out .Hedvig reached for the pistol, the bookf when Gina enters-she hastily lays it down,unobserved .Gina sends her in to the kitchen to check on Hialmar's breakfast.The door opened hesitantly and Hialmar enters unkempt. Hedvig saw him and runs to him in joy ,he rejected her and she retires with out a word.Gina asks him if he is still leaving ,he said he will bring Ekdal with him .
Act…(v)part…..(2)
Hialmar asks if any one found his hat on the stairs which lost it the night before.He refused the breackfast,Hedvig enters again and he also rejected her. She took the pistol from the f and creeps into the garret.Hialmar sits on the sofa and eats his breakfast .Gina suggests to him to stay in the sitting room for few days and finally, he a grees.he glues werle's letter back together because it is for his father and not for him .Hialmar angry with Hedvig if she accepts the birthday gift from Werle, she has never truely loved him and [blots ]the sun light from his life. Suddenly,ashot rings out from the garret and Gregers is happy saying that Hedvig has sacrificed her duck to prove her love for her father.Ekdal appears in a full uniform.the group realize that he has not shot the duck and it would appear that Hedvig has done it herself. Hialmar opens the garret door ,the group follows to discover Hedvig lying on the floor.The men lay her on the couch and Gina calls for Relling .Relling said that she is dead because the bullet has pierced her chest and caused internal hemorr hage. [in the depths of the sea] murmurs Gregers.Hialmar screams that he hunted her from him like an animal.Gregers said '''what is noble' ''Relling said that '''Most people are ,worse luck"".
THE END