Brand (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- First Published: 1866
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Social criticism
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: West coast of Norway
- Principal Characters: Brand, His Mother, Agnes, Einar, The Mayor, The Doctor, The Dean, The Sexton, The Schoolmaster, Gerd
- Genres: Social realism, Drama
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Religion, Idealism, Scandinavia or Scandinavians, Life, philosophy of, Priests, Norway or Norwegians
- Locales: Norway
The Story:
Brand, a young priest, met three types of people as he made his way down the mountainside to the tumbledown church in his home valley. The first was a peasant who would not give his own life for his dying daughter. The second was Einar, a young painter returned from travel overseas, and Agnes, his betrothed, who were gaily on their way to the town of Agnes’ parents. The third was a half-gipsy girl named Gerd, who taunted him to climb up to her church of ice and snow. In the peasant, Einar and Agnes, and Gerd—the fainthearted, the lighthearted, and the...
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