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Edvard Grieg composed incidental music for the play, which was performed at the premiere, with selections later published in the two Peer Gynt Suites. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg In the Hall of the Mountain King]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3N1yBEGbw Solveig's Song]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcEnSITNaGM Anitra's Dance]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCEzh3MwILY Morning Mood]] are the most famous pieces.

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Edvard Grieg composed incidental music for the play, which was performed at the premiere, with selections later published in the two Peer Gynt Suites. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg In the Hall of the Mountain King]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3N1yBEGbw Solveig's Song]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcEnSITNaGM Anitra's Dance]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCEzh3MwILY com/watch?v=-rh8gMvzPw0 Morning Mood]] are the most famous pieces.
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->'''Åse''': Peer, you're lying!\\
'''Peer''': No, I'm not.

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->'''Åse''': ->'''Åse:''' Peer, you're lying!\\
'''Peer''': '''Peer:''' No, I'm not.



--> '''Begriffenfeldt''': The pure common sense succumbed to death last night at eleven o'clock.

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--> '''Begriffenfeldt''': -->'''Begriffenfeldt:''' The pure common sense succumbed to death last night at eleven o'clock.



* BrokenEcho: Peer comes across The Sphinx, and decides that it must represent the Boyg. When he calls out to it, "Who are you?", he is surprised to hear his words echoed in German‚ Berlin dialect, he notes.

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* BrokenEcho: Peer comes across The Sphinx, and decides that it must represent the Boyg. When he calls out to it, "Who are you?", he is surprised to hear his words echoed in German‚ German‚ Berlin dialect, he notes.
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** The whole line underscores Solveig's ultimate choice as SeriousBusiness UpToEleven. Made ''even worse'' for her when Peer ultimately ''leaves'' her there.

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** The whole line underscores Solveig's ultimate choice as SeriousBusiness UpToEleven.up to eleven. Made ''even worse'' for her when Peer ultimately ''leaves'' her there.

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'''''Peer Gynt''''' is an epic drama written by Norwegian playwright Creator/HenrikIbsen in 1867. The play is a verse drama, telling the life story of the {{farm boy}} Peer, an unreliable poet who is prone to make up {{tall tale}}s of his own experiences, often based on local folklore. This to the chagrin of the villagers, who have heard the stories before. Peer lives with his widow mother Åse on a downtrodden farm, coming from a family who has seen better days. During his youth, he trespasses on a rural wedding and runs off with the bride, after being rejected by the chaste Solveig, who apparently made a lasting impression on him.

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'''''Peer Gynt''''' ''Peer Gynt'' is an epic drama written by Norwegian playwright Creator/HenrikIbsen in 1867. The play is a verse drama, telling the life story of the {{farm boy}} Peer, an unreliable poet who is prone to make up {{tall tale}}s of his own experiences, often based on local folklore. This to the chagrin of the villagers, who have heard the stories before. Peer lives with his widow mother Åse on a downtrodden farm, coming from a family who has seen better days. During his youth, he trespasses on a rural wedding and runs off with the bride, after being rejected by the chaste Solveig, who apparently made a lasting impression on him.
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After having his way with the bride Ingrid, who was sweet on him, but had to marry someone else, he dumps her, only to get exceedingly drunk with three dairy maids in the mountain, and then finally to get abducted into the same mountain. Here, he encounters the Mountain King and his daughter, the green-clad Hulder, and has to pass some tests for the right to woo her. He goes some of the way, but rejects the trolls when they ask for permission to alter his eyesight for ever. Then the trolls beat him within an inch of his life before disappearing because of church bells, invoked by his mother, who seeks for him outside.

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After having his way with the bride Ingrid, who was sweet on him, him but had to marry someone else, he dumps her, only to get exceedingly drunk with three dairy maids in the mountain, and then finally to get abducted into the same mountain. Here, he encounters the Mountain King and his daughter, the green-clad Hulder, and has to pass some tests for the right to woo her. He goes some of the way, but rejects the trolls when they ask for permission to alter his eyesight for ever. Then the trolls beat him within an inch of his life before disappearing because of church bells, invoked by his mother, who seeks for him outside.



Peer lives large in foreign lands, earns a lot of money on slave trade and missioning, and is abandoned by his foreign friends off the coast of Morocco. From there, he finds his way to Egypt, playing the prophet and seduces a beduin chieftain's daughter who robs him, before he eventually tries his luck as a historian in Cairo. He ends up in a local madhouse, suddenly realizing how he got there.

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Peer lives large in foreign lands, earns a lot of money on slave trade and missioning, and is abandoned by his foreign friends off the coast of Morocco. From there, he finds his way to Egypt, playing the prophet and seduces a beduin Bedouin chieftain's daughter who robs him, before he eventually tries his luck as a historian in Cairo. He ends up in a local madhouse, suddenly realizing how he got there.

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* SavedByTheChurchBell: The titular character is only saved by a beating from trolls when his mother rings church bells, causing the vile monsters to be shattered at the sound of them.



* TheSpook: The "unknown passenger" and the Button Moulder. Both are very strongly implied to be supernatural entities, but while the latter can be understood as some sort of [[TheGrimReaper death angel]] who takes care of souls belonging to neither Heaven nor Hell, the identity of the former is a complete mystery.


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* TheSpook: The "unknown passenger" and the Button Moulder. Both are very strongly implied to be supernatural entities, but while the latter can be understood as some sort of [[TheGrimReaper death angel]] who takes care of souls belonging to neither Heaven nor Hell, the identity of the former is a complete mystery.
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->'''Solveig''': Peer, you're lying!\\

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->'''Solveig''': ->'''Åse''': Peer, you're lying!\\



'''''Peer Gynt''''' is an epic drama written by Norwegian playwright Creator/HenrikIbsen in 1867. The play is a verse drama, telling the life story of the {{farm boy}} Peer, an unreliable poet who is prone to make up {{tall tale}}s of his own experiences, often based on local folklore. This to the chagrin of the villagers, who have heard the stories before. Peer lives with his widow mother on a downtrodden farm, coming from a family who has seen better days. During his youth, he trespasses on a rural wedding and runs off with the bride, after being rejected by the chaste Solveig, who apparently made a lasting impression on him.

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'''''Peer Gynt''''' is an epic drama written by Norwegian playwright Creator/HenrikIbsen in 1867. The play is a verse drama, telling the life story of the {{farm boy}} Peer, an unreliable poet who is prone to make up {{tall tale}}s of his own experiences, often based on local folklore. This to the chagrin of the villagers, who have heard the stories before. Peer lives with his widow mother Åse on a downtrodden farm, coming from a family who has seen better days. During his youth, he trespasses on a rural wedding and runs off with the bride, after being rejected by the chaste Solveig, who apparently made a lasting impression on him.
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* TheSpook: The "unknown passenger" and the Button Moulder. Both are very strongly implied to be supernatural entities, but while the latter can be understood as some sort of [[TheGrimReaper death angel]] who takes care of souls belonging to neither Heaven nor Hell, the former is a complete mystery.

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* TheSpook: The "unknown passenger" and the Button Moulder. Both are very strongly implied to be supernatural entities, but while the latter can be understood as some sort of [[TheGrimReaper death angel]] who takes care of souls belonging to neither Heaven nor Hell, the identity of the former is a complete mystery.

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* AngelsDevilsAndSquid: The Button Moulder (who may be the [[TheGrimReaper Angel of Death]]) turns up as a representative of Heaven, and the Devil himself turns up as a representative of Hell - but there's also a third supernatural realm occupied by [[TheFairFolk the Trolls]] and [[EldritchAbomination the Boyg]]. It is the amoral philosophies of this third realm that Peer comes to embody, and as a result his soul is barred from both Heaven and Hell.

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* AngelsDevilsAndSquid: The Button Moulder (who may be Heaven presumably exists in the [[TheGrimReaper Angel world of Death]]) turns up as a representative of Heaven, the play, and the Devil himself turns up as a representative of Hell - but there's also a third supernatural realm occupied by [[TheFairFolk the Trolls]] and [[EldritchAbomination the Boyg]]. It is the amoral philosophies of this third realm that Peer comes to embody, and as a result his soul is barred from both Heaven and Hell. There's also the Button Moulder (probably TheGrimReaper), who takes care of outcast souls like Peer's, moulding them into something new.



* MysteriousWaif: The "unknown passenger", who shows up in the beginning of the fifth act, scaring the living willies out of Peer. He also doubles the MindScrew factor by asking Peer a number of questions, and commenting on him in a way that nobody, until this very day, has fully understood. Who, or what he is, is interpreted ''in adnauseam''. [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Everyone is the foreign passanger, it seems]].

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* MysteriousWaif: The "unknown passenger", who shows up in the beginning of the fifth act, scaring the living willies out of Peer. He also doubles the MindScrew factor by asking Peer a number of questions, and commenting on him in a way that nobody, until this very day, has fully understood. Who, or what he is, is interpreted ''in adnauseam''. [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Everyone is the foreign passanger, passenger, it seems]].


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* TheSpook: The "unknown passenger" and the Button Moulder. Both are very strongly implied to be supernatural entities, but while the latter can be understood as some sort of [[TheGrimReaper death angel]] who takes care of souls belonging to neither Heaven nor Hell, the former is a complete mystery.
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Edvard Grieg composed incidental music for the play, which was performed at the premiere, with selections later published in the two Peer Gynt Suites. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg In the Hall of the Mountain King]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcEnSITNaGM Anitra's Dance]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCEzh3MwILY Morning Mood]] are the most famous pieces.

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Edvard Grieg composed incidental music for the play, which was performed at the premiere, with selections later published in the two Peer Gynt Suites. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg In the Hall of the Mountain King]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3N1yBEGbw Solveig's Song]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcEnSITNaGM Anitra's Dance]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCEzh3MwILY Morning Mood]] are the most famous pieces.
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Edvard Grieg composed incidental music for the play, which was performed at the premiere, with selections later published in the two Peer Gynt Suites. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg In the Hall of the Mountain King]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCEzh3MwILY Morning Mood]] are the most famous pieces.

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Edvard Grieg composed incidental music for the play, which was performed at the premiere, with selections later published in the two Peer Gynt Suites. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg In the Hall of the Mountain King]] King]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcEnSITNaGM Anitra's Dance]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCEzh3MwILY Morning Mood]] are the most famous pieces.
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->'''Solveig''': Peer, you're lying!\\
'''Peer''': No, I'm not.
-->--''The opening lines and most quoted part of the play''
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* AmbiguousEnding: "We meet at the last cross-roads, Peer, and then we'll see - I say no more..."

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* AmbiguousEnding: "We meet at the last cross-roads, Peer, and then we'll see - -- I say no more..."
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* DelusionsOfGrandeur: Peer from the literal start. He dreams of getting the best of all around him, becoming a king, or an emperor. The delusion backfires splendidly when he eventually gets his coronation [[NapoleonDelusion in a madhouse]].
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* HearingVoices: In the second act, when the Boyg calls on "birds" or whatever, to consume him. And later in the fifth act, alone in the wilderness, a number of voices call to him to remind him on all the tasks and works he didn't do, the songs he never sung, and the tears he never shed. In the end, his mother calls to him, complaining that his way of "comforting" her on her deathbed in fact [[NiceJobBreakingItHero led her straight to hell]].

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* HearingVoices: In the second act, when the Boyg calls on "birds" or whatever, to consume him. And later in the fifth act, alone in the wilderness, a number of voices call to him to remind him on all the tasks and works he didn't do, the songs he never sung, and the tears he never shed. In the end, his mother calls to him, complaining that his way of "comforting" her on her deathbed in fact [[NiceJobBreakingItHero led her straight to hell]].



* SmiteMeOhMightySmiter: Peer at the end of the fourth act. He loses it after the second suicide, and calls out for mercy or whatever, but has lost the name of God in the process, calling him "ruler of all fools".

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* SmiteMeOhMightySmiter: Peer at the end of the fourth act. He loses it after the second suicide, suicide and calls out for mercy or whatever, mercy, but has lost the name of God in the process, calling him "ruler of all fools".

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