What I'm tracking is the motif of dark/darkness and what it does to the story. In the play, The Wild Duck up till Act 5 I have only seen three areas where the motif of dark appear. For example, "Gregers: Not quite that. I wouldn't say you're wounded; but you're wandering in a poisonous swamp, Hjalmar. You've got an insidious disease in your system, and you've gone to the bottom to die in the dark" (3.170). In this passage Gregers is talking to Hjalmar about Hjalmars situation and how he is unaware of the complete truth. When he says that "you've gone to the bottom to die in the dark," Gregers means that this lie has dug such a deep hole for Hjalmar to sit in the he cannot get out of it and it will eventually ruin him. Hjalmar is in the dark about his wife's relationship with old Werle and when he eventually finds out what Gina had done, he is disgusted and wants absolutely nothing to do with his wife and daughter.
What I've noticed about what I'm tracking is that it is harder than I expected. In Oedipus there were many instances where this motif of dark was mentioned but in The Wild Duck I found I have to read a lot closer to find the same motif. I am surprising happy that I have to read the play so much closer because since I'm not the biggest fan of reading I am able to get into the plays. I feel that the hard part of me will be connecting the plays together through this motif of dark/darkness. I can already tell that I will have to connect them together with the effects of this motif rather than how they effect the characters. But i will not know for sure until after reading the third play and finishing The Wild Duck.
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