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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2006  
         
  Article:   TIL FORSVAR FOR BOLETTE. EKTESKAPSDEBATTEN I IBSENS FRUEN FRA HAVET / DEFENDING BOLETTE. DEBATING MARIAGGE AND IBSEN’S PLAY, LADY FROM THE SEA.

Authors:  BERET WICKLUND. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Til forsvar for Bolette. Ekteskapsdebatten i Ibsens Fruen fra havet. In Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea Wangel’s eldest daughter Bolette accepts to marry her former teacher to be free and be able to leave home. This proposal has often been seen as a parallel to Ellida’s marriage to Wangel, who “bought” her from her father, and Bolette’s acceptance is thus an unhappy solution as it is based not on love, but lack of other options, thus being a critic of society and women’s lack of equality. By exploring the different stages in Arnholm’s proposal, Bolette''s altenative choises and her response, I argue in my article that this scene presents the idea that equality means mutual respect to each part’s needs and wishes, as opposed to an egocentric, child-like attitude represented by the romantic artist-to-be Lyngstrand. Thus this proposal gives us the ideological foundation for Ellida’s final choice of “acclimatication” and civilization in the main plot of this drama.  
         
     
         
         
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