Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - The German Drama - Gerhart Hauptmann - Lonely Lives
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
Lonely Lives 89
shades between strong and weak, how could they
grasp the endless variations between the good and
the bad? To them life is a daily routine of work
and prayer. God has arranged everything, and
God manages everything. Why bother your
head? Why spend sleepless nights?
"
Leave it
all to God." What pathos in this childish sim
plicity !
They love their son John, they worship him,
and they consecrate their lives to their only boy;
and because of their love for him, also to his wife
and the newly born baby. They have but one
sorrow: their son has turned away from religion.
Still greater their grief that John is an admirer of
Darwin, Spencer and Haeckel and other such
men, sinners, heathens all, who will burn in
purgatory and hell. To protect their beloved
son from the punishment of God, the old folks
continuously pray, and give still more devotion
and love to their erring child.
Kitty, Dr. Fockerat*s wife, is a beautiful type
of the Gretchen, reared without any ideas about
life, without any consciousness of her position in
the world, a tender, helpless flower. She loves
John; he is her ideal; he is her all. But she
cannot understand him. She does not live in his
sphere, nor speak his language. She has never
dreamed his thoughts, not because she is not
willing or not eager to give the man all that he
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
