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Magda 71
economic and social status, different races, peo
ples and times holding different ideas of it. With
"
Honor "
Sudermann succeeded in undermining
to a considerable extent the stupid and ridiculous
notion of the Germans ruled by the rod and the
Kaiser s coat.
But I particularly wish to consider
"
Magda,"
because, of all the plays written by Hermann
Sudermann, it is the most revolutionary and
the least national. It deals with a universal sub
ject, the awakening of woman. It is revo
lutionary, not because Sudermann was the first to
treat this subject, for Ibsen had preceded him, but
because in
"
Magda
"
he was the first to raise the
question of woman s right to motherhood with or
without the sanction of State and Church.
MAGDA
LIEUTENANT COLONEL SCHWARTZE, Magda s
father, represents all the conventional and con
servative notions of society.
Schwartze. Modern ideas! Oh, pshaw! I know
them. But come into the quiet homes where are bred
brave soldiers and virtuous wives. There you ll hear no
talk about heredity, no arguments about individuality, no
scandalous gossip. There modern ideas have no foot
hold, for it is there that the life and strength of the
Fatherland abide. Look at this home! There is no
luxury, hardly even what you call good taste, faded
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