Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-22
IBsES's LATEST DRAMA,


Whenever new drama OF lbsen is
announced people naturally fee
curious to learn what new riddles that
mysterious author 10 constructing. To
tho general public Ibsen's powerful
figure ia as that oil u hermit In the
literary world interesting because Of
the mysterious solitude with which he
is surrounded and because Of the diff.
Guilty OF cOmpreheniing his phil.
osophy. To few he ia the master
who painis llts with more truihlulness
TO facts than any OF his cotemp1rarief-
misunderstood because true Ia a worlI
where truth 10 not recognized. Hi
latest dram0, John GABRIEL Borkman,
is at present widely discussed, praised
or condemned according to the differ
ent vlews Of the critics.
In this curious tragedy Iossn pre-.
cents IN tho central figure, Borkmnn,
an ice.Cold egotist who has sacrificed
every noble sentiment on the altar Of
ambition. Wealth and power are his
aims. In order to obtain position as
director in bank, he cx.ingul9heB
what little spark OF love there may
have been In his young heart anu
marries the sister Of the girl whom he
has cruelty rejected. AS director OF
the bank he engages in hazardous and
dishonest speculRlions, and Is finally
brought 70 Justice. He is imptlssned.
The rejected girl AZ first takes care o
his child, but later the mother under.
takes to educate the boy for the iulil-
ment OF the mission Of cleansing the
name OF tbs family OF the dishonor
brought upon it by the father.
The boy, however, grows up and de-
clares that no has no deaire to fulfil
that "missiOp." He leaves his loving
mother and faithful aunt In tears, for a
gay womGn whose RttTacllveness he
cannot withstand.
After this BoFkman is visited by the
woman whom he once rejected, Ella.
The scene between the two is stormy,
She puts his sins before him. "You
have Filled love in my soul," she ssys.
"You rejected the woman you loved.
The II Ost precious thing in the whole
world you traded Tor base gain. That
was double murder. You killed your
own soul ana mine" Ella closes by
uaking HE consent to the adoption OF
his own son rs restitution Tor the
wrong he had done. To this, however,
the mother objects.
In the next act kind Of rseoneilia-
ton between man and wife Is attempt
cd, hut It ouly serves to demonstrate
how wide the chasm is between these
two egOtisIio natures. lie insists that
he has done nothing but what waa p l.
tecIly iustifable, and thsthis misfortune
WAS due entirely 70 the taithlessnesa
oi trusted friend. She only m9cks
him and insists tina, she alone can
restore the lest honor OF the family
through the sou. The latter enter.
He refuses to listen to tho admluiliuus
OF the patents and simply declares
that he is going to i've his own life,
not that OF anybody else. His aim i.
happiness. He departs with his para.
muur,
BorEmRn ami Ella, Ia The fourth nc.,
take walk together in cold winter
evening through tho forest. A. last
they reach little clearing, where The
snow has dtiited nigh ugainst TINS
Or trees. They slt Gown CO
bench, where the two In their
early youth often have rcetcl
dreamiag OF happiness ami love.
But now everything lie cold. Borb-
mans mind ia wandering. He tslBs