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smsnk
smsnk
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High School - 11th Grade

What is the effect of the place on the characters in "The Wild Duck"?

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Posted by smsnk on Sunday March 23, 2008 at 9:52 AM and tagged with characters, the wild duck.

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  1. gbeatty Teacher
    College - Freshman

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    At times the effect of place on "The Wild Duck" is considerable. The most vivid example of it for me is the way the Ekdals use the attic as a forest. How poignant! How very sad! They want to be men, hunting in the wild, but they have no wilderness, and so they hunt inside an attic. This in itself is a commentary on humanity in society, independent of anything else that happens in the play. However, there is more. The attic, and the hunting, is very close to the rest of life; they are jammed together. When Gregors rents a room at the Ekdals' house, this keeps him close, further jamming things together emotionally. All this happens at one place, and that's not just a setting: it is a cause, leading to the death at the end.

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    Posted by gbeatty on Monday September 1, 2008 at 12:36 PM