Author(s)

Jingying Deng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, 450000, China

Corresponding Author

Jingying Deng

ABSTRACT

Henrik Johan Ibsen is a famous Norwegian dramatist with great ethical consciousness in the 19th century, whose dramas contain rich ethical connotations. In the late period of Ibsen's creation, truth and freedom became the important themes that ran through the drama. The Lady from the Sea is a new direction of Ibsen's drama creation. Instead of revealing the real social problems directly, he pays attention to people's mind, ethical dilemmas and ethical choices, and expresses his attitude towards social reality with the help of the characters' mind. The fantastic diaspora experience has become an important source of Ibsen's drama, which changes his creative form, and makes his characters form dramatic conflicts in the confrontation between internal and external environment, as well as deeper cognition and thinking. This paper analyzes the three characters in The Lady from the Sea to explore their ethical choices under the ethical dilemmas of self, family, marriage and other conflicts, as well as the profound interpretation of the concept of love and freedom.

KEYWORDS

Ibsen, The Lady from the Sea, ethical dilemmas, ethical choices

CITE THIS PAPER

Jingying Deng, Ethical Dilemmas and Ethical Choices in the Lady from the Sea. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2022) Vol. 5: 44-51. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2022.050307.

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