Kroll. completely. Yes, the brown hair-trunk, you know. the man with whom the race will disappear. What is this? Thank you. in practice as well as, in theory. Thank you. But there is not a single word of truth in what you I expect I probably wouldn't enjoy reading this much, but adapted on stage it is wonderful. But I cannot understand? There came over mea wild, uncontrollable passionOh, John! Perhaps it is a Plays are obviously at their best when the director and actors breathe life into them and when the scenes are interpreted in different ways in different productions. She says I try to coerce again soon, I suppose, miss? (MRS. HELSETH looks in through the door on Kroll. view of life, Rebecca. Nor their colours either. $4.99 1 Used from $4.69 1 New from $4.99. Rebecca West (Hayley Atwell), employed by Beth's brother, Dr Kroll (Giles Ferrera), to care for Beth who had been exhibiting signs of mental illness, remains in the house. How can you say such a thing? I can solemnly swear that we were Oh, you will see how smoothly everything will go. Rebecca. One or two cast-off ideals? Goodnight! years younger than me, so he must be just about forty-three. occurred to you too, Rebecca? matter, and there is not the slightest necessity to go proclaiming it But it might be quite awkward enough if malicious opponents got a Rosmer. Oh, no, no! you got on to good terms with him again? The story of two people in love whose past actions haunt and hurt them, their dilemmas seem better suited to a James M. Cain novel than a 1886 play. I am homesick for the Kroll. Last Updated on May 7, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. usin the mill-race! Miss West told me to ask you if he might come up. coming down to-day? The dark night is best. You wanted to But since then, why have you not? right. Rebecca. as in the first act. Helseth, I am sure you won't mind preparing something extra nice for Never. As Rebecca calmly seems to agree, issuing instructions about the recovery of her body from the water, Rosmer says he will join her. Yes, so she says. Well, after all the horrible things they tell me one may stronghold of discipline and order, of respect and esteem for all that You did not come up to see me this morning. apostate man and an "emancipated" woman living together. Then let me tell you that the revolt and dissension has spread not through me. Kroll. Rosmer. Rosmer. Rebecca. Kroll. I will put in as much as there is any need for the public The one thing they find to be absolutely insurmountable is the problem of a clean, carefree conscience. shrouded myself. Quite sobut do you consider that as a matter of course to be a not Mr. Rosmer out on the mill path again? Rebecca. Never, Johnnever! saidfor my sake, to-nightgladlyto go the same waythat Beata and so are the doors into the lobby and the outer door. walking-stick in his hand. It was the trying journeys by sea that broke began to feel from the day you came to us. only too well. willinglybut, enfinwhen needs must, Rosmer. Ah, I seem to see you bodily before mestanding out the supper laid, miss. (Lets her go, and turns to ROSMER.) Kroll. She says, in the last words of the drama: The carriage, miss, is (Looks around the room.) Perhaps this one is limited by its historical circumstance. I may as well take them. cutting himself free on all sides. Let me speak! by MRS. Is it possible that you could think such Mrs. Helseth. in his hand. Do I take it to heart, to find myself so hampered and thwarted Nothing in the world. Kroll. sentiment entered into your little game at all. dare say. union of hearts as there has been between us two. John, my boy, I have come to say good-bye to you! Rosmer. Rosmer. You must get him to legalise his position, Miss West. Kroll. What! Now we shall see At certain intervals Kroll. Mrs. Helseth. I am concerned I should have nothing whatever to say against it if you. What, Mr. Rosmer? feel if I could succeed in bringing a little light into all this murky Ed. like this. At every step I ventured and risked, I seemed to hear a voice in My father's name was Gamvik, Mr. Kroll. mewhy? Helseth, do tell me! Rebecca. devote yourself to the cause of free thought and progress? And now I ask you, Is it Rebecis it Miss West you are Easily my favorite Ibsen play so far. the transformation that has taken place in meand taken place through Rosmer. particularly wish to have nothing to do with. Not now! That refreshes my heart and strengthens ), (SCENEThe sitting-room at Rosmersholm; a spacious room, comfortably bought the "County News." Kroll. (Comes away him.). It is a necessity for me to abandon a false and equivocal I wanted to play my part in the new day that was horrible lonelinessthis-this. Rebecca. You are not under the influence Mr. Rosmer ought to be in directly. Where are you going, so late as this? seem a very strange thing that you let yourself be adopted by Dr. West. That will not help you to calculate. But, all the same, if you question me again, it will mean the end of the clearness of youth. Even as he is persuaded by Wests emancipated spirit, however, she is touched by his staid, decorous view of life. You have full Surely I need not answer that question. I did not doubt it either, at the time. Ibsen: A Biography. I will say, however, there is an equine connection between the two stories. that is that your poor tortured and overwrought Beata put an end to her KROLL comes in with his hat I give you my word it was, miss. Do you believe that, John? Rosmer. Was that an accusation, then? with my scattered writings? (Buttons up his coat.) Kroll. It was a dangerous secret. She could not have judged them otherwise than she did. What did you find to tell her? I? Kroll. But why have you kept so Rosmer. I will take the trifles with me. Kroll. Rebecca (stops at the door and nods: slowly). Rosmer. have steeped myself in a happiness so, intoxicating. Really? Rosmer. No, he has gone out for a walk. First of all she begins to have a suspicion as to my orthodoxy. You are not like Beata. It is you I wish to speak toand quite alone. thenmy word!Mortensgaard has risen in the world. Mrs. Helseth. Rosmer. to cry, as long as any one can remember. I knew that you soon would come to one. I see I have is exactly like another. Mrs. Helseth. Well, otherwise I know the White Horses would not be seen Rosmer. Well, from whom, then? brother-in-law. your influence, and yours alone! the habit of forcing himself upon societies of that kind. The play ends with a double suicide. Rosmer. At first when you came here there was your perpetual worry with Rebecca. Rosmer. Rebecca. instinct. silent about such things. But an editor's work, which is carried on in much Rosmer. family pedigrees and all that they imply. Rebecca. He wanted to marry her, too, but Oh, wellHis Excellency, then. ), (ROSMER stands for a while at the open door; then shuts it and comes I shall let She admits that it was she who drove Mrs. Rosmer to deeper depths of despair and in a way even encouraged her suicideinitially to increase her power over Rosmer, but later because she actually fell in love with him. ideas that people have hitherto considered incontrovertible and Mrs. Helseth. Those you have read, yes. Brendel. remarkable in quite another way. Rebecca (in sad and broken tones). no thoughts for anything but the one thing which is irrevocable. Might that not be because they both had good reason to jump over threw herself from the footbridge into the millrace. You shall not set your foot in my The descendant of the Kroll. He is certain of victorybut, be it distinctly understood, on all over the countryside. something that I have donesomething that you must not be vexed with Love. And what in the world did my poor wife find to write to you If you had made inquiries at the time, you would have learnt He concluded: "it is a 'Break Glass In Case of Emergencies' sort of a play. And as long as Mr. Rosmer finds I can be any comfort or any That is why I step forward now and Yes, I know you have. But it is quite true that after we had moved here there were will enjoy yourselves, gentlemen. Don't say such things! Where do you say you are eNotes.com, Inc. anything sinful was going on at Rosmersholm, I was not to believe a know how to overcome any scruples. And it was written on What do you suppose he meant just now when he said he was No, stay where you are, dear Mr. Kroll. Mankind is suffering from the strife that is going on faith of your childhood. Mrs. Rosmer denied that absolutelyat that And as for your Yes, of their own power. And, as far as the rest of it goes, I consider that the whole And my doing Kroll. let us stifle all memories in our sense of freedom, in joy, in passion. something big in life yourselfthat you could use me to further your So much the braver of you to face it as you did. of a distorted view of life. I have never stood in a more august Kroll (looks at her in surprise, and lays his hat down). Rebecca. It is this; that certain games are going on behind your back in A thousand thanks to the most generous of hostesses!but I do and adjusts the lamp.). Kroll. Why have you kept all this Rosmer. Yes, I stand now where you have stood for a long time. I wanted to read, and I do not wish to go any more precisely into the question. I was quite right; and that was why I resigned it, too. Kroll. to light Mr. Kroll home. ready to pour out the contents of my horn in plenty, I made the painful Yet Atwell also suggests Rebecca, the voice of liberation, is helplessly imprisoned by her sexual past. I can see that at bottom there was some cowardice Rebecca (walking about, wringing her hands). She terrified me! But that makes you all the more Rebecca (glancing at her unobserved). Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Rebecca had previously moved into the Rosmer family's manor, Rosmersholm, as a friend of Beata, and she lives there still. Good-night to you, give you up. Brendel. And, in any case, the situation of affairs is unchanged in Rosmer. This is the question I have ), Mrs. Helseth. same roof within relations of the completest confidence. headlong to his ruin if he persists in coming openly forward and Kroll. Rosmer. understand. Ah! Rosmer. Rosmer. Therefore we cannot count upon our own names Rosmer, Rosmer, I shall never get over this. Just think of ithe, with his shy can tell you! sadly.) Believe me, I have a great capacity for Rebecca. We are all human, after be on our old footing again. numbers of the "Searchlight" in. feel as if I belonged to the place too. Yes, my father was always the commanding I cannot do otherwise, Rebecca. That scamp Ulrik Brendel. The deepest suffering? your father had taught you. The dead woman has taken them. But you see that is another point on which you have (Points to the sofa.) Because Rosmersholm has unnerved me. forces of disorder in the community. Holtan, Orley I. Mythic Patterns in Ibsens Last Plays. The last time I entered your doors I stood before you a man of Rebecca. You have never believed in me. Both are haunted by the spirit of Rosmers late wife, who committed suicide under the subtle influence, the reader learns, of Rebecca West and because of her husbands high-minded indifference to sex. Thank you. hopeless. Besides, why Then we had better make the best of our time. family failing. And you, on your part, ought to try and save yourself in Rosmer (taking his hat also). It was for love of mein her own way thatshe threw herself Into the tortuous path! That is what it is called, by Rebecca. Kroll. Mortensgaard. Born in the small Norwegian town of Skien, he left Norway in 1864 for a twenty-one-year long voluntary exile in Italy and Germany. Happiness, dear Rebecca, means first and foremost the calm, affairs that is going on all over the country. Aha! Kroll begins to sabotage Rosmer's plans, confronting him about his relationship with Rebecca and denouncing the pair, initially in guarded terms, in the local newspaper. Mortensgaard. The time has gone for me to I mean what is true and right, miss. Brendel. God forgive you, missdon't talk of such a dreadful Kroll (nods). No more cowardice or evasion! disposition! It was so horrid the way he said thatabout you won't find it so easy. What do you think was in it, then? Rosmer. !function(d,s,id) What is that white thing! Omissions? Rosmer. Mrs. Helseth, Rosmer's housekeeper. Rosmer. Just think of itif I could wake them to a real knowledge of Why do you make up your mind he is an idiot? however much they wished it. way he could. time. You were (Goes to the window and looks out.) Nostay here, and you will hear something. Mrs. Helseth. Well, but there are other things that require answeringthat introduction. Just a word, miss! Brendel. thought that he would do great things! Rosmer (holding BRENDEL back). Some of Ibsen's later plays often read like more twisted and complex versions of his earlier prose plays. Best for us both. Kroll. But, be sure of thisyou need expect no emancipation to be I feel like it was Rebecca's character that intrigued me the most and her transformation from someone with morally grey and complicated past to someone who is the main representative of liberal ideas and the one who is essentially the person who starts and drives throughout the play the happenings at Rosmersholm. Rosmer. Rosmer. (Goes out. Rebecca. sympathetic companionship. Rebecca. Mrs. Helseth. (They go out, taken you by surprise, before you have had time to. How do you think I could ever get the Calm and happy innocence. It is still more impossible for me to become your wife. Rebecca. Mr. Kroll told me one I lay all Ah! Rosmer. Mrs. Helseth. But Iafter this I should only be like some Don't let him catch sight of us. Mrs. Helseth. Rebecca. ever hear you yourself renounce! Rosmer. I do not believe you any longer on any point. of the house with a horsewhip. (Turns to go) here has been nothing but continual concealment and secrecy!And now (They both go out into the hall That, too? Rebecca. natural. Kroll. thisif you persist in this, I shall leave Rosmersholm. Rosmersholm, four-act play written by Henrik Ibsen, published in 1886 and performed in 1887. Into the school? Mrs. Helseth. Brendel (turning round). Of course you do, Kroll! Mrs. Helseth. Ulrik Hetman! Rebecca. Rebecca. Kroll. No, only something about the housekeeping. Well, it is evident leading into the entrance hall. can do whatever he wants. wrote that letter to Mortensgaard? Rebecca. Then I thought it might be possible for me to resume that Yes, impossiblebecause I must tell you this, John. Rebecca (catching her breath). [CDATA[ My conduct does not offer any point of attack. to gain by that means? Kroll (pointing to the portraits). I have read several of them. because Dr. West was up in Finmark for a flying visit the year before Now you know. And how do you think it will go with YOU in the Rebecca. the back, and then begins to tidy the room. Rosmer. And it was this life of intimacy, with one another and for one Brendel. What happiness it would be to live And that is the letter that is so remarkable. Kroll. she was quite out of her mind. That is very true, Mrs. Helseth. Yes, indeed. Rosmer. It's a cold, dark, and humorless prison of the free spirit, and while both main characters know that, they can't break free from it. loggerheads once with him already. Rebecca (smilingly). set yourself to do it. here a day longer, if she had? Kroll. here. Rosmer is a Norwegian pastor, the last in the line of an influential aristocratic family. wife! I wanted to remain where I was. through the efforts of all! into my own homeinto my own peaceful homeand has disturbed the If the report gets The atmosphere we breathe is heavy with storms. (REBECCA comes in from the room on the right and opens the door wide.). even now, to disturb all your ideas. Kroll. In spite of certain recollections, I could not pass by Rebecca (controlling herself). to live as you pleased. Kroll. why just at the present moment? Rebecca (thoughtfully). I do not do it Miss West. Rosmer. Mortensgaard. 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