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io8 Gerhart Hauptmann
this stirring, all-embracing message of the most
humanly creative genius of our time Gerhart
Hauptmann.
THE SUNKEN BELL
THE great versatility of Gerhart Hauptmann
is perhaps nowhere so apparent as in
"
The
Sunken Bell," the poetic fairy tale of the tragedy
of Man, a tragedy as rich in symbolism as it is
realistically true a tragedy as old as mankind,
as elemental as man s ceaseless struggle to cut
loose from the rock of ages.
Heinrich, the master bell founder, is an idealist
consumed by the fire of a great purpose. He has
already set a hundred bells ringing in a hundred
different towns, all singing his praises. But his
restless spirit is not appeased. Ever it soars to
loftier heights, always yearning to reach the sun.
Now once more he has tried his powers, and
the new bell, the great Master Bell, is raised aloft,
only to sink into the mere, carrying its maker
with it.
His old ideals are broken, and Heinrich is lost
in the wilderness of life.
Weak and faint with long groping in the dark
woods, and bleeding, Heinrich reaches the moun
tain top and there beholds Rautendelein, the spirit
of freedom, that has allured him on in the work
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