The Wild Duck/Comparison- Journal 3

To what extent would you agree that plot should be valued more highly than style in the work. In your answer you should refer to two or three works you have studied.

So far I have only studied The Wild Duck and Oedipus. Between those two, I believe that the structure is more important in Oedipus than in The Wild Duck. I believe this because of how complex Oedipus is structured. The play, written during romanticism is not in prose and is split up into stanzas. I am unsure about a set pentameter because I am still unsure of how to count it. But I do feel that the style is more important in Oedipus because it gives us background about the play and the time it was written.

I believe that the plot is more important than the style in The Wild Duck. I believe this because all the language is written in prose. This shows that less thought and time were put into the style of the play and more time was put into the plot. The plot is also more important here because the audience is not expected to know the story of The Wild Duck before it started. This means that Ibsen has to put more work into constructing the story.