The Peer Gynt story is devoid of any symbolism that
can enrich my dreams, the character of Solveig who
supposedly sees potential for good in Peer Gynt’s
character is totally without motivation: claiming
that
a good woman like her would be able to love
such a
liar, bogus poet, self-idolator, seducer,
self-deceiver,
braggart, narcissist and egotist, is totally absurd
Peer Gynt never experiences self-improvement and
just gains awareness aware of his own emptiness,
a critic lamented the play exposes the modern world
as a place where truth is subjective and the
world is
viewed through the prism of self, but I believe
truth
has always been inter-subjective thought construct
and that everything has always been seen through
Various prisms whether of individual self or
group
consciousness, thus since the Peer Gynt play
just
illustrates meaninglessness, there is no
beautiful
symbolism to enrich the scope of the imagination,
Solveig’s song the only lovely
point in this fable...
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