Ibsen's Haida Goble: Haida and her uncontrollable life

"She shot herself to death!" Hit in the temples!" The actions of the beautiful lady Haida surprised her newlywed husband in the play, and also shocked the audience and readers.

Ibsen: Heyda Goble

Before committing suicide, haida, after playing a dance piece on the piano, completely destroyed his life in an irreparable way of suicide.

Haida is the daughter of General Goble and is a big girl.

After her father's death, her life was difficult, and she had to choose to marry the mediocre and boring scholar Tesman.

After marriage, she longs to have a high-grade social circle, but as far as she can see, there is only a vile little judge Braque's ambiguity and entanglement with herself; she places her own inexplicable emotions and expectations on the talented and debauched prodigal son Lewu Borg, but takes him to destruction step by step; reunites with Taiyuan, a female classmate of the convent at that time, she also fantasizes about one day burning her beautiful curly hair...

Haida Goble is an 1890 work by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen and a very unique work of his later works. The work portrays a heroine with a unique personality.

After the performance, the audience's views on the heroine are also diverse. Some say she's an angel, some say she's a slut, some say she's a devil, but she's just a lonely girl with decadent characteristics.

Haida's decadence encompasses four aspects: the unexplained expression of boredom, the intense desire to manipulate the fate of others, the burning of the fire of jealousy, the illusion of the beauty of death, and the practice of noble and beautiful suicide.

01 Haida's "boredom": bored to death

Flipping through the dictionary, boredom means "being bored with an activity and unwilling to continue." "For example: I'm tired of doing this kind of thing. It can be seen that the so-called "boredom" is what we often call dissatisfaction with the status quo, irritability but not catharsis.

In Haida's case, her "boredom" mood is obvious and extremely intense. She was from a prestigious family, a true noble lady, and her father was General Gauble; she was extraordinary in appearance, beautiful in appearance and figure.

Unfortunately, General Gaulle died suddenly, leaving little of an inheritance for Haida. In this way, Haida is thrown into this world of incomparable reality. She could only find her own way.

For an aristocratic girl who is accustomed to glory and wealth and has no possessions, the only opportunity she can take advantage of is marriage.

Haida could only rely on marriage to maintain a decent standard of living, and she chose Dr. Tesman because he was well educated and confident of getting a university professorship.

When the two were married, Haida and Tesman made an agreement that after marriage, they should "socialize and entertain guests."

After marriage, Haida became a sparkling business card of Tesman; Tesman was just a meal ticket for Haida.

Her husband, Tesman, is a nerd who doesn't know life and has no interest, and he only knows how to immerse himself in the history of human civilization. Haida had no common language with him.

The family's economy is even more stretched, unable to hold banquets, unable to entertain guests, and unable to afford horses...

The relationship between husband and wife is only that Haida uses him to ensure his life, and cannot communicate emotions and ideas. Moreover, what Haida can't stand is the family atmosphere of Tesman's "small family temperament", and she is not accustomed to the words and deeds of Aunt Tesman.

Tysman was raised by two widowed aunts who died as a child. From an early age, life is simple and cautious. Although the family economy is poor, it is self-sufficient and self-satisfied.

When Tesman and Haida returned from their honeymoon, the aunt went to visit Haida, and in order to be worthy of the noble niece, the aunt bought a new hat, but Haida deliberately asked which maid's hat it was, which made the aunt feel embarrassed.

Haida disagreed with the family and never told her husband about her pregnancy.

When Judge Bragg carefully hinted at the fact that she was pregnant, he inquired that she could later be a virtuous mother. She immediately interrupted him angrily: "Less nonsense! I often think that there is only one thing I am good at in this world, and that is to die of annoyance. ”

Thus, after marriage, Haida was still the daughter of General Gobler, not the wife of Dr. Taysman.

Although she is married to Tesman, due to her strong dissatisfaction and boredom with real life, she is still attached to the aristocratic life of the past, fantasizing about noble, beautiful, and unusual things happening.

This attitude of escapism towards life is typical of decadent character: "The most fundamental and significant feature of the decadent is escapism. ”

It can be said that her pride exists in the past, and real life is nothing more than memories and dreams.

02 Haida's Desire: "Manipulating the Fate of Others"

What exactly does Haida want?

This is a problem.

Haida was raised as a boy by his father. She used to ride horses with her father when she was young and learned to use a gun. Her interest in men is not in the sexual aspect, but out of a strong desire for control, and what she wants most is "the power to manipulate the fate of others".

Just when she was tired of married life, her former lover, Lewu Borg, reappeared three years after disappearing.

At that time, the musician Borg was wild and infamous, and was a famous playboy. He and Haida are friendly, and the two have done a lot of ridiculous love games.

Today, he has converted from evil to righteousness, and with the help of his Classmate Taiyuan of Haida Monastery, he has written an anthropological monograph, which is highly praised by society.

Recently, the two of them collaborated again on another new book manuscript, which the two call their common "children." Tae-won is deeply in love with Lewu Borg and his anthropological research career, and resolutely elopes with him when he is married.

Haida was very jealous when she learned all this.

So she waits for an opportunity to sabotage their relationship, and wants to separate Lewu Borg and TaiYuan in order to achieve the goal of changing their fate.

Haida deliberately reveals In front of Lewu Borg, Tae-won's distrust of him.

The fact that the person who Burger had always regarded as a "true confidant" did not trust him was very embarrassing and very angry. So he agreed to go to a banquet at the Bragg family (which he initially refused).

After sending away lewu Borg, Haida's mood suddenly became very happy and excited. Unfortunately, lesbian Borg went to the prostitute Diana after drinking and quarreled with the police. Worse still, he lost the manuscript of his new book.

It just so happened that Tesman picked up the manuscript and went home to give it to Haida.

The distraught musician Borg came to look for the manuscript and confessed that he was sorry for Tae-won and had committed "a crime of infanticide". Lewu Borg's performance added another fire to Haida's jealousy.

When Lewu Borg declares that he wants to "end everything" with death as soon as possible, Haida, instead of stopping him, lends him a pistol from his father and asks him to promise to "die beautifully". It means shooting at the temple.

As soon as Lewu Borg left, Haida threw the manuscript into the furnace and burned it.

After listening to Bragg's false statement about Lewu Borg's suicide - "shot in the chest", Haida immediately exclaimed in front of everyone: "Good, good - chest is also a good place... A really brave move – this thing is done beautifully".

Later, in a private conversation with Bragg, she also praised: "This thing is done beautifully", "There are still people in this world who dare to do something brave, and they have volunteered to do a beautiful thing, which really makes me feel happy."

Haida rejoiced in her influence, not noticing that her perverse words and deeds surprised Bragg.

So he told the truth—levoor Borg's death was not a voluntary one, but an accident; he had an argument with the other prostitutes, and the gun was not on the chest, but in the place under the stomach.

Haida immediately said with a look of disgust, "Oh, how can anything become so despicable and ridiculous as soon as it touches my hand." ”

Why does Haida think so? Because Haida wants to defend her faith in courage and beauty, lewurge's ugly death method disappoints her.

Yes, Haida does not value life, including its own. She didn't love other people or herself, she was just extremely bored. It is a decadence of life.

For Haida, her desire to manipulate Borg's "beautiful death" has failed, and this fact adds another weight to her disappointment in the world.

03 Haida's Jealousy: A Sadistic Love affair with Tae-won

Haida has a jealousy of Tae-won. Many people think it's because Haida likes Lewu Borg. Non-also non-also.

On the contrary, Haida is jealous of Tae-won herself. Because Tae Won is a growing female character with a self-consistent power.

In fact, Taiyuan is a tragic female character. She bluntly says that her husband's union with her is not loving and affectionate, but because she is useful and she is cheap (the line in the play is I am cheap to keep).

She found her own value in Lewu Borg, and the two wrote books together. She relies on Burger and trusts him.

When Berger said she had lost her manuscript, she was sad. But in fact, she still has notes and first drafts that can be rewritten.

But she didn't immediately raise it with Lewu Borg. Why, because it's not that she's sad that Berger killed "our common child," but that her hard-won sense of self-worth has been destroyed.

But then she was relieved and forgave Lewu Borg. So later she wanted to get back to Lewu Borg to write a new book.

It was Lewu Borg who helped her find herself and let her find a way to realize herself, so although she was very sad to lose Lewu Borg, Tayyuan could accept rewriting the book with Haida's husband, Tesman. In other words, Tae-won can find a sense of value and control over her life from her work.

In this sense, Tae-won is a positive female character. Throughout the play, she is terrified of Haida from the beginning (Taiyuan says to Haida, "I was afraid of you when I was in school, and you always pulled my hair and said you were going to light it up." Compassion for her marital misfortune, and by the end of her acceptance of the fact of Berger's death and the re-writing of the book have achieved her change and growth.

And this stable sense of value in Taiyuan is exactly what Haida lacks, so she likes her, wants to be close to her, and has a secret sadomasochism with her in her heart.

The fondness for Tae won began when he was in the monastery, and this bitter love for the same sex carried an element of sadism. Several times in the script, Haida is jealous of Tae-won's beautiful curly hair, and several times wants to put it in the fire and burn it...

But it's an emotion that can't be made public, and it's also an emotion that can't be accepted.

Therefore, Haida shows a kind of sadistic pleasure.

What I don't get, others don't want.

So she destroyed Lewu Borg precisely because she wanted to isolate Taiyuan. What she didn't expect was that Lewu Borg died, but Tayyuan and her husband Tesman hit it off, and the two wanted to work together to write a book.

She really found that she couldn't control the world, she couldn't control the people around her, and in the end she still didn't get what she wanted.

There is a passage in the script where Haida has a self-talking paragraph when burning the manuscript: "Now I am burning your child, Taiyuan, and your curly hair." You and Elle Lombog's children. I'm burning — I'm burning your children."

It can be seen that Haida is most jealous of Taiyuan; what she most wants to do is burn Taiyuan's curly hair or even Taiyuan herself. (This place is actually worth digging into, and I thought that this "burning" itself embodied the germination of a kind of lust...) ）

For Haida, her desire to manipulate the fate of others has been frustrated again and again. Life has disgusted her, so she will have suicidal thoughts like other decadents, in order to seek an extreme thrill and to prove her beauty and courage.

04 Haida's Suicide: Fantasies about the "Beauty of Death"

Upon learning the truth about Lewu Borg's death, Haida quietly took the other pistol left by her father from the writing desk in the outhouse and took it into the back room. When she returned, she seemed much more relaxed.

At this time, Bragg, who admired Haida, secretly told her that he had discovered a secret: the pistol that killed Lewurborg was stolen, and he knew who the owner of the gun was. Bragg was blackmailing Haida to be at his mercy later.

She immediately declared violently: "I must obey your will, meet your demands, and be your slave!" No, I can't stand it! Definitely not! ”

She went into the back room to play the piano, and soon there was a gunshot. Tesman rushed into the back room and exclaimed, "She shot herself!" Hit in the temples! Then Bragg said the anti-climactic words: "Oh my God! I didn't think she would do that! ”

Some say it was because of Bragg's threat that Haida finally decided to commit suicide.

Not really.

It was Lewu Borg's unbearable way of dying that stimulated Haida, and it was only when she heard that Taiyuan and Tesman were going to write books together that Haida really made haida determined, and she knew that only by dying herself could she truly die beautiful and noble.

For Haida, death is not a passive retreat, but a manifestation of courage and nobility.

Yes, Haida is a decadent.

She is a hero who will stop at nothing to uphold her belief in life.

In her eyes, there is no fear of death.

In this way, the so-called depressing decadent worldview also has a positive side. When he dies, or when he actively embraces death, at least his kind can survive— they will certainly move toward a new realm of health nobility.

Decadence is not negativity.

As a decadent who exhausted his life choices, Haida has too many charming parts in his personality that allow us to glimpse the darkness and depth of human nature.