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88 Gerhart Hauptmann
the brutal background of poverty in
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The
Weavers," Hauptmann is never aloof as the icono
clast Ibsen, never as bitter as the soul dissector
Strindberg, nor yet as set as the crusader Tolstoy.
And that because of his humanity, his boundless
love, his oneness with the disinherited of the
earth, and his sympathy with the struggles and
the travail, the hope and the despair of every
human soul. That accounts for the bitter opposi
tion which met Gerhart Hauptmann when he made
his first appearance as a dramatist; but it also
accounts for the love and devotion of those to
whom he was a battle cry, a clarion call against
all iniquity, injustice and wrong.
In
"
Lonely Lives
"
we see the wonderful sym
pathy, the tenderness of Hauptmann permeating
every figure of the drama.
Dr. Fockerat is not a fighter, not a propagand
ist or a soap-box orator; he is a dreamer, a poet,
and above all a searcher for truth; a scientist, a
man who lives in the realm of thought and ideas,
and is out of touch with reality and his immediate
surroundings.
His parents are simple folk, religious and de
voted. To them the world is a book with seven
seals. Having lived all their life on a farm,
everything with them is regulated and classified
into simple ideas good or bad, great or small,
strong or weak. How can they know the infinite
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