Brand | Act II Summary
By the fiord—a narrow inlet of water surrounded by mountains, which leads to the sea— Brand comes upon a group of peasants begging the town's sheriff for food. Brand offers sermons instead of money, and the hungry peasants move in to beat Brand. They are interrupted by a woman who begs Brand to come across the stormy bay to her house to perform last rites for her husband who has killed their starving child out of mercy and has mortally wounded himself out of shame for the act. Brand prepares to brave the stormy boat ride to the woman's house. He asks for help from the woman, but she...
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