Wild Duck Journal #2

"Journal #2: How does Ibsen use the motif of decay, disease, illness, etc and to what effect? Use at least three quotes in the defense of you claim."
 Ibsen uses the motif of decay, disease, and illness to portray how lies that are kept inside eat at a person's conscious until they do something about it. The effect is this feeling of guilt throughout the play. "But who bears the guilt for Mother's fatal weakness?" (135). "Well, he doesn't look any better" (141). "And then there's a doctor named Relling" (154). "MOLVIK (getting up). Pardon - I, I can't - got to go downstairs right - RELLING Drink soda water, man! MOLVIK (rushing out the hall door). Ugh - ugh!" (173)