“Biting the Sour Apple”: The Nietzschean Undertow in <i>Little Eyolf</i>
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Abstract
In this essay, Little Eyolf is treated as a play that offers compelling internal evidence of Ibsen's critical, intertextual engagement with Nietzche. Not only does the play invoke the Nietzschean imagery associated with lower chthonic powers and transfiguration rites, but its complex mess of dysfunctional relations articulates a starkly Nietzschean critique of the existential limitations of bourgeois consciousness. While Ibsen may appropriate the dialectical interplay of Dionysian and Apollonian principles as the shaping forces at work in the gender and identity problems of the play, his assimilation of the key metaphors of Nietzsche's philosophical poetics does not prevent him from developing a daring, proto-feminist critique of aristocratic radicalism and the übermensch fantasy of self-overcoming. The argument is designed to celebrate the rhetorical possibility that Ibsen's playful, improvisational thinking with these key Nietzschean metaphors reveals a rat-catcher of human consciousness unmatched by anything in “that old maid,” Nietzsche.
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