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Just think of the old bear−hunter shutti...

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The Wild Duck

Henrik Ibsen

Monologue Overview

Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Five
Time & Place
1800s, Norway, Hialmar’s house
Length
Short
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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Just think of the old bear−hunter shutting himself up in that dark garret to shoot rabbits! I tell you there is not a happier sportsman in the world than that old man pottering about in there among all that rubbish. The four or five withered Christmas−trees he has saved up are the same to him as the whole great fresh Hoidal forest; the cock and the hens are big game−birds in the fir−tops; and the rabbits that flop about the garret floor are the bears. He has to battle with the mighty hunter of the mountains!

Ibsen, Henrik. The Wild Duck. http://www.public-library.uk/ebooks/106/54.pdf

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