Abstract：As an ethical tragedy, Brand embraces such the events as the death of Brand’s mother in regret, the death of Brand’s son from disease, the suicide of Brand’s wife in despair and the death of Brand himself in the snow mountain. Brand’s tragedy is rooted in his flattened ethical consciousness, bigoted self-centeredness, empty moral talk and hypocrisy. He is devoid of self-control because of his impractical pursuit to the religious cause of “All or Nothing”, thus makes a number of incorrect ethical choices. From the perspective of ethical literary criticism, this essay focuses on the multiple ethical identities of Brand as son, father and husband, his emotional imbroglio, the moral dilemma he encounters and the controversial ethical choices he makes. The dramatist Henrik Ibsen pays close attention to Brand’s moral behaviors and the moral reviews made by people around Brand with the adoption of external focalization on one hand, and centers on the mental course of Brand in his self redemption through the use of internal focalization on the other hand. Developing around Brand’s ethical relationships such as family, marriage and career, Brand explores relevant ethical propositions including responsibility, obligation, mission, filial piety, benevolence, faith, death, fear, despair, self-accusation, suicide, guilt and self\|redemption and reveals the main character’s desire for moral power and pursuit of self\|redemption with death in his life, demonstrating Henrik Ibsen’s pursuit and yearning towards ideal ethical principles of human beings.
张连桥. 自我救赎与伦理情怀——《布朗德》中的道德困境与伦理选择[J]. , 2013, 1(1): 39-45.
ZHANG Lian qiao. Self-Redemption and Ethical Concern: Exploring the Moral Dilemma and Ethical Choice in Brand. , 2013, 1(1): 39-45.
2013, Vol. 1 
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