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Henrik Ibsen’s “The Master Builder”
By using Aristotle’s definition we can see that Ibsen’s The Master Builder falls in the category of a tragedy. “Aristotle tells us that a tragedy, by its nature, must tell of a downfall, and that the hero must be a virtuous man of some eminence, brought down by ‘some error or frailty.’” (Hall, 752) Halvard Solness is the hero, or protagonist, in this play. Almost as soon as he enters the play Ibsen causes the audience to see him as a probable philanderer. As the play progresses, we of the audience begin to see that it is this characteristic, this “moral Achilles’ heel,” that is his “fatal flaw.” (Hall, 752)
“The tragic hero is typically on top of the wheel of fortune,” (Frye, 651) and this is where, in the first minutes of the play, Ibsen was careful to let the audience see Halvard Solness.
Solness is portrayed as an eminent architect of his community, and much of the surrounding area. We