Category: Book The Wild Duck

The play tactfully displays the entrance of a devilish character, Gregers who kills Hedvig, the wild duck with his manipulative words. He compels her father and his friend Hjalmar to consider her a burden and Hedvig to sacrifice herself for Hjalmar, to fulfill his destiny as the devil. The scenario is set at Werle’s house.…

The Wild Duck The theme of The Wild Duck is that inflexible idealism can prove dangerous. Gregers in this play is an idealist; he is a seeker after truth; he hates deception and lies. This man preaches to other people what he calls “the claims of the ideal”. Gregers’ idealism compels him to break his…