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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 2(7), pp. 112-120, July, 2014 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2014.043 Review Re-interpreting Ibsen and Echegaray: A Comparative Study
Amir Hossain
Senior Lecturer, Department of English, IBAIS University, Dhaka-1230, BD. E-mail: amir.ju09@yahoo.com, amir.hossain.16578@gmail.com. Mobile: +8801915908306
Accepted 23 July 2014
The central aim of
this paper is to examine the bitter experiences of Ibsen’s and
Echegaray’s childhood, parental professions, economic hurdles and
crises. Both Ibsen and Echegaray suffered initial setbacks and
disappointment during their artistic career. Here, the focus is on
literary criticism and its impact on their dramatic arts with a view to
fostering out their traumatic experiences, feministic message,
symbolism, romanticism, social realism, destiny, obsolete thoughts, and
dogmatic faith through the art of characterizations. The study will also
demonstrate that while Echegaray was known as Spanish politician,
writer, and mathematician, the leading dramatist of the last quarter of
the 19th century, Echegaray was, by temperament, a romantic that was
embedded in Ibsen’s dramatic arts, the romantic at heart, an opening of
new and wide horizons. Ibsen, a seeker of knowledge, always meditated
himself to develop his dramatic psychology. In this paper, hereditary
disease also plays an important role in Ibsen’s Ghosts, and Hedda Gabler
and Echegaray’s Las Malas Herenclas and El hijo de Don Juan. This study
showcases that Echegaray was renewed by the reading of Ibsen, since his
social and realistic problems took a different breadth and scope; his
dramatic career attained great success when his mighty river bed was
deepened with the dark waters of the North by his acquaintance with
Ibsen.
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