Pillars of Society E-Book

Henrik Ibsen

• Herausgeber: Henrik Ibsen
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Bernick: We cannot work that way now-a-days. You must not imagine, Aune, that it is for the sake of making profit; I do not need that, fortunately; but I owe consideration to the community I live in, and to the business I am at the head of. I must take the lead in progress, or there would never be any.Aune: I welcome progress too, Mr. Bernick.Bernick: Yes, for your own limited circle--for the working class. Oh, I know what a busy agitator you are; you make speeches, you stir people up; but when some concrete instance of progress presents itself--as now, in the case of our machines--you do not want to have anything to do with it; you are afraid.Aune: Yes, I really am afraid, Mr. Bernick. I am afraid for the number of men who will have the bread taken out of their mouths by these machines. You are very fond, sir, of talking about the consideration we owe to the community; it seems to me, however, that the community has its duties too. Why should science and capital venture to introduce these new discoveries into labour, before the community has had time to educate a generation up to using them?

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Henrik Ibsen

Pillars of Society

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Table of contents

ACT I.

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

DRAMATIS PERSONAEKarsten Bernick, a shipbuilder.Mrs. Bernick, his wife.Olaf, their son, thirteen years old.Martha Bernick, Karsten Bernick's sister.Johan Tonnesen, Mrs. Bernick's younger brother.Lona Hessel, Mrs. Bernick's elder half-sister.Hilmar Tonnesen, Mrs. Bernick's cousin.Dina Dorf, a young girl living with the Bernicks.Rorlund, a schoolmaster.Rummel, a merchant.Vigeland and Sandstad, tradesmanKrap, Bernick's confidential clerk.Aune, foreman of Bernick's shipbuilding yard.Mrs. Rummel.Hilda Rummel, her daughter.Mrs. Holt.Netta Holt, her daughter.Mrs. Lynge.Townsfolk and visitors, foreign sailors, steamboat passengers, etc., etc.(The action takes place at the Bernicks' house in one of the smaller coast towns in Norway)

ACT I.

(SCENE.--A spacious garden-room in the BERNICKS' house. In the foreground on the left is a door leading to BERNICK'S business room; farther back in the same wall, a similar door. In the middle of the opposite wall is a large entrance-door, which leads to the street. The wall in the background is almost wholly composed of plate-glass; a door in it opens upon a broad flight of steps which lead down to the garden; a sun-awning is stretched over the steps. Below the steps a part of the garden is visible, bordered by a fence with a small gate in it. On the other side of the fence runs a street, the opposite side of which is occupied by small wooden houses painted in bright colours. It is summer, and the sun is shining warmly. People are seen, every now and then, passing along the street and stopping to talk to one another; others going in and out of a shop at the corner, etc.In the room a gathering of ladies is seated round a table. MRS. BERNICK is presiding; on her left side are MRS. HOLT and her daughter NETTA, and next to them MRS. RUMMEL and HILDA RUMMEL. On MRS. BERNICK'S right are MRS. LYNGE, MARTHA BERNICK and DINA DORF. All the ladies are busy working. On the table lie great piles of linen garments and other articles of clothing, some half finished, and some merely cut out. Farther back, at a small table on which two pots of flowers and a glass of sugared water are standing, RORLUND is sitting, reading aloud from a book with gilt edges, but only loud enough for the spectators to catch a word now and then. Out in the garden OLAF BERNICK is running about and shooting at a target with a toy crossbow.