Unveiling Ibsen’s “The Wild Duck”: A Dive into Illusion, Truth, and the Playwright’s Masterful Ambiguity
“Take away the life-lie from an average man, and you take away his happiness at the same time.” These words, chillingly delivered in Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece, “The Wild Duck,” encapsulate the play’s central dilemma: the corrosive power of truth versus the comforting embrace of illusion. Henrik Ibsen, a name synonymous with the birth of modern … Read more
