Peer Gynt

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The Lean One believes Peer cannot be counted a real sinner who can be sent to Hell; he has committed no grave sin. Over the course of the play, the many secrets that lie behind the Ekdals' apparently happy home are revealed to Gregers, who insists on pursuing the absolute truth, or the "Summons of the Ideal". These in turn had a profound influence on the young James Joyce who venerates Ibsen in his early autobiographical novel Stephen Hero.

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Peer Gynt was first performed in Christiania (now Oslo) on 24 February 1876, with original music composed by Edvard Grieg that includes some of today's most recognised classical pieces, " In the Hall of the Mountain King" and " Morning Mood". Eckart's version was one of the best attended productions of the age with more than 600 performances in Berlin alone. Peer leaves for Ingrid's wedding, scheduled for the following day, because he may still get a chance with the bride. The portrayal of the Gynt family is known to be based on Henrik Ibsen's own family and childhood memories; in a letter to Georg Brandes, Ibsen wrote that his own family and childhood had served "as some kind of model" for the Gynt family. Ibsen, Henrik, -,Mansfield, Richard, -,Archer, William, -, tr,Archer, Charles, -, joint tr,Ibsen, Henrik, -.

Thus, the character Peer Gynt could be interpreted as being an ironic representation of Henrik Ibsen himself. Knud continued to struggle to maintain his business and had some success in the 1840s, but in the 1850s his business ventures and professional activities came to an end, and he became reliant on support from his successful younger half-brothers.

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Although most of his plays are set in Norway—often in places reminiscent of Skien—Ibsen lived for 27 years in Italy and Germany and rarely visited Norway during his most productive years.

Behind the corner, the Button-molder, who is sent by God, still waits, with the words: "Peer, we shall meet at the last crossroads, and then we shall see if. of the Altenburg/Paus family in Altenburggården, with Ibsen's mother (far right), maternal grandparents (centre) and other relatives. Far more than Goethe's Faust, Peer is the one nineteenth-century literary character who has the largeness of the grandest characters of Renaissance imaginings.

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Ibsen also wrote that he had used his own family and childhood memories as "as some kind of model" for the Gynt family; [7] he acknowledged that the character of Åse—Peer Gynt's mother—was based on his own mother, Marichen Altenburg, while Peer's father Jon Gynt is widely interpreted as based on Ibsen's father Knud Ibsen. In 1825, Henrik's father Knud acquired the burghership of Skien and established an independent business as a timber and luxury goods merchant there, with his younger brother, Christopher Blom Paus, then aged 15, as his apprentice. One of the sung parts of the incidental music, " In the Hall of the Mountain King", was included in the first suite with the vocal parts omitted. In contrast to his sociable and playful father, Henrik was described as a more introverted personality; Johan Kielland Bergwitz claimed that "it is with the Paus family that Henrik Ibsen has the most pronounced temperament traits in common. Altenburg was a shipowner and timber merchant, and owned a liquor distillery at Lundetangen and a farm outside of town; after his death in 1824 the widow Hedevig, Henrik's grandmother, took over the businesses.He preserved a profound silence about the content of the play, and begged his publisher, Hegel, to create as much mystery about it as possible. On the other hand, Jørgen Haave points out that his parents' close relationship wasn't that unusual among the Skien elite. Although Ibsen himself always looked back on this play as the cornerstone of his entire works, very few shared his opinion, and his next works would be much more acclaimed. In 1799, Ole Paus sold the Ibsen House in Skien's Løvestrædet (Lion's Street), which he had inherited from his wife's first husband, and bought the estate Rising outside Skien from a sister of his brother-in-law von Cappelen. The couple lived in difficult financial circumstances and Ibsen became very disenchanted with life in Norway.