victoriakolseth's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
tamuna610's review
5.0
An amazing play. I was deeply moved. Henrik I Ibsen truly is a "Norwegian Shakespeare".
gianni_francis's review
3.0
Brand is a brutally ardent priest that gets married and has a child. His family's ultimate outcome is a good example why priests should tend to a flock, not be responsible for a family.
msand3's review against another edition
4.0
Although Brand is a priest in Ibsen's verse play, he really represents any person obsessed with achieving an impossible ideal--one who risks everything for an uncertain payout and marches to his own destruction, even as he claims he is heading toward his ultimate victory. In his sacrifice of everything, Brand loses those whom he loves most because he refuses to admit that he loves them as much (or more) than his spiritual quest. He assumes that one must be sacrificed to obtain the other. Of course, he is doomed to lose all.
Not nearly as experimental as Peer Gynt, Brand delivers an equally memorable protagonist who, like Peer, makes it difficult for readers to garner sympathy...but, in the end, we kinda do. Brand shows us that the greatest roadblocks to our salvation (whether spiritual or earthly) are usually of our own creation--or, if those roadblocks are placed in front of us from an outside force, they become exacerbated by our stubborn personal dogmatism, no matter how much we might place the excuse on religious, social, or political ideologies.
Not nearly as experimental as Peer Gynt, Brand delivers an equally memorable protagonist who, like Peer, makes it difficult for readers to garner sympathy...but, in the end, we kinda do. Brand shows us that the greatest roadblocks to our salvation (whether spiritual or earthly) are usually of our own creation--or, if those roadblocks are placed in front of us from an outside force, they become exacerbated by our stubborn personal dogmatism, no matter how much we might place the excuse on religious, social, or political ideologies.
ldjdbooks's review
adventurous
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
lnatal's review against another edition
3.0
From BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3:
Brand, the hero of Henrik Ibsen's epic drama, is a religious zealot who refuses all compromise. But faced with the possible loss of his loved ones, can he persist in his absolutism?
Music composed and performed by Nicolai Abrahamsen.
Directed by Peter Kavanagh.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015ygzz
Brand, the hero of Henrik Ibsen's epic drama, is a religious zealot who refuses all compromise. But faced with the possible loss of his loved ones, can he persist in his absolutism?
Music composed and performed by Nicolai Abrahamsen.
Directed by Peter Kavanagh.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015ygzz
charst's review against another edition
5.0
a priest who hates and loves his god you say! Im in.
I really did like this a lot... can only vouch for the geoffrey hill translation though
I really did like this a lot... can only vouch for the geoffrey hill translation though
vunderdrug's review against another edition
2.0
this sucked i swear it was just making the same point throughout
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