Do Now: What is your understanding of the concept "duty"? How do you feel about dutiful people?


Procedures:

• What is the oxymoron in duty ? Illustrate it with the details from the play.
• Interpret Love. Do you think Mr. Solness love his wife? Why or why not?

1. What does Solness mean by saying that "the fire was the making of me- the builder"?Page136
2. What did he sacrificeto become a master builder? Why isn't he happy as everyone else perceives him to be?
3. How does he feel toward the fire? the death of the twins? his wife Aline after the death of their children?
4. What does he only build homes for people now?
5. How does Hilda respond to him when Solness claims himself to be unhappy?
6. What kind of young man is Ragnar (page139-140)?
7. How did  Solness treat Ragnar as revealed in their dialogue?
8. Why didn't Solness fix the crack in the chimney?
9. Respond to  Solness's speech on page142,"Hilda, there exist special, chosen people who have been endowed with the power and faculty of desiring a thing, craving for a thing, willing a thing-so persistently and so-so inexorably-that at last it has to happen"


Homework:

10. Write a 150-word paragraph explaining why Solness felt the fire was his fault or he willed the fire to happen.