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The play bids the audience to despise respectability and admire independence. But the representative of each side is far from being an acceptable champion. Magda's father fails to recognize the difference between a child with duties and a human being with rights, and Magda reveals no conception of
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the fact that duty is only in part a social obligation and is in its innermost essence an obligation of self-respect.
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It has been translated into English by C. E. A. Winslow (Boston 1896), and edited by F. G. G. Schmidt (Boston 1909).
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it contains a number of picturesque episodes and amusing characters, and is distinguished for animated dialogue
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that states a Knowledge editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic.
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its theme of revolt against paternal tyranny is one to which the times were sympathetic
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Its success in the 19th century is traceable to at least four causes:
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daughter who returns home after a life of moral irregularity but
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its heroine is an unconventional, self-assertive, and emotional "
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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In 1917, the play was adapted into the American silent film
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personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay
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its construction is skillful and in every sense theatrical
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Incorrectly dates the original release of the work.
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Hermann Sudermann
German
personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay
help improve it
encyclopedic style
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Mrs. Patrick Campbell
New Woman
naturalism
Ibsen
Dumas fils
prodigal
operatic
Magda
Heimat
Carl Froelich
list of references
related reading
external links
inline citations
improve
introducing
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Gilman, D. C.
"Sudermann, Hermann" 
New International Encyclopedia
public domain
"Magda" 
Encyclopedia Americana

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