When We Dead Awaken (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- First Published: 1899
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Psychological symbolism
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: A coastal town of Norway
- Principal Characters: Arnold Rubek, Maia Rubek, Irene von Satow, Ulfheim
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Death or dying, Hunting or hunters, Sculpting or sculptors, Aging, Norway or Norwegians, Mountaineering
- Locales: Norway
The Story:
Professor Arnold Rubek, a noted sculptor, and his young wife Maia had returned to their home on the coast of Norway after four years abroad. At the baths and the hotel they admitted to being bored, and to break the summer tedium they planned to sail northward around the coast. Rubek had become world-renowned with the fashioning of his masterpiece, “The Resurrection Day,” and success had brought him worldly riches. Other visitors at the baths were a sportsman named Ulfheim, called the bear-killer, and a strange pale woman, Madame von Satow, who, with a companion...
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