THE FAILURES OF REBECCA'S STRUGGLES AS THE CAUSE HER OF TRAGIC LIFE IN HENRIK IBSEN'S ROSMERHOLM.

Abstract

Rebecca has experienced a gloomy side of life when she was a child. These experiences influence her behaviors, her attitudes. ways of thinking and her principles of life. 'I hose things influence her way to lace her problems and to find the way to overcome the problems. The experiences also influence her to have a desire to leave and forget her past. In addition, Rebecca tries to change her life to he happy and to become a noble woman. She has some struggles to realize her ideals. Unfortunately, her principles of life and her struggles then drive her to live under pressures and experience failures. She strictly applies her principles of life to realize her ideals in her new environment, which has different background with her, Rosmerholm. Rebecca's social pressures arise because of her different principles with her new environment especially to gain her ideals. The first pressure comes from Beata. Rebecca wants to defeat Beam's ideal because her ideals break her struggle in Ros• merholm. Beata also arises her jealousy because of her position as Rosmers wife. She wants to win Rosmees love by cheating Beata and remove her from the house. I ler bad attitudes to Beam then arise her euilly because her actions to Beata cause Beam's death. The other pressure comes from Dr. Kroll. He always connects her attitudes in Rosmerholm with her family background, Ill this case her background as an illegitimate child of doctor West and her mother and her parents' affair in the past I le accuses her that her background drives her to have bad purpose in Rosmerholm, therefore, she accuses Rebecca of being responsible to the bad things that happen in Rosmerholm.