LordGro
Since: May, 2010
Dec 7th 2013 at 1:17:47 PM
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Removed this. If it's not the work itself that does the Historical Hero Upgrade, then it goesn't go on the page.
- Historical Hero Upgrade:
- Connected to the reception of the play and the position in the Norwegian national canon. The play even gave its name to the annual Peer Gynt prize, who usually goes to a Norwegian who has broken through and made Norway more known. Fridge irony at all costs.
- Inverted when a newly built high school in Oslo decided to take Peer Gynt as a name of the school, but dropped it after a lot of snarks on behalf of the students, who then probably would be taught to go FaceāHeel Turn on every principle in the book...
At this point, Morality Play is not a trope.
- Morality Play: To the point where death actually shows up to put the main character straight before he passes (Represented by the Button Moulder). The medieval Morality Play comes in in this part of the play. In this case, Peer is the Everyman figure, and the people he meets in the fifth act are largely allegorical, and there to teach him of his errors.
Let's just say and leave it at that.