wild duck journal 2

To what extent would you agree that plot should be valued more highly than style in the work?

 

I would full agree that plot should be valued more highly than style because without the plot the play would have no conflict or reason to be written. The plot gives the reader a reason to have certain feelings toward characters, objects and etc. If there was not plot the reading would be pointless and ramble on with unimportant jibber. Style should build up the anxiety that the plot gives out. It should give all the foreshadowing to the climax and build up for the plot.

 

The style that Ibsen uses in the Wild Duck builds up for the plot. Ibsen's style of writing uses a lot of foreshadowing. Like the foreshadowing of the Knife for the death of Hedvig and the foreshadowing of the letter from Werle and how Hjalmar wrips it up yet he still keeps it around the house. Ibsen's style really builds up for the plot of the death and the unhappiness of the characters.