This document provides an analysis of the extrinsic elements in Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt. It discusses how Ibsen drew from his own life experiences in writing the play, including modeling the characters and story of Peer Gynt and his family on Ibsen's own family. Peer Gynt struggles to overcome his flaws, mirroring Ibsen's own journey living abroad for many years before returning to Norway as a renowned playwright. The document also examines how Ibsen incorporated aspects of Norwegian folklore and his family's history into the creation of Peer Gynt.

1. THE EXTRINSIC ELEMENT ANALYSIS
PRESENTED BY:
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1.Putri Nurul Hidayati
2.Herzul Arifin
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2. The playwright’s life experiences are poured in the play
The struggle of Peer Gynt to fight his bad attitude
becomes good attitude and The loyalty of a women to
wait a man in her life.
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3.  The Peer Gynt is a five-act play by the Norwegian
dramatist, Henrik Ibsen. He wrote this play in 1867.
 It was written in the Bokmål dialect of Norwegian and is
one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays.
 Ibsen believed Peer Gynt that the several of the
characters are modelled from Ibsen's own family, notably
his parents Knud Ibsen and Marichen Altenburg. He was
also generally inspired by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's
collection of Norwegian fairy tales, published in 1845.
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4. THE SYNOPSIS
Peer Gynt is the son of the once rich and highly regarded Jon Gynt,
who had become a drunkard and lost all his money, leaving Peer and his
mother Åse to live in poverty. Peer wants to restore what his father had
wrecked, but gets lost in boasting and day-dreams. He is involved in a fight
and carries off the bride, Ingrid of Hægstad, on her wedding-day. He is
outlaned and has to flee from the parish. During his flight he meets three
amorous dairy-maids, the woman clad in green, the daughter of the old man
of the Dovre Mountains, whom he wants to marry, and Bøygen (the great
obstacle).
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5. Solveig, whom Peer met at the Hægstad wedding, and fell in love with,
comes to his cabin in the forest to live with him, but he leaves her and goes on
his travels. He is away for many years, takes part in various occupations and
plays various roles including that of a businessman engaged in shady
enterprises on the coast of Morocco, wanders through the desert, passes the
Memnon and the Sphinx, becomes a Bedouin chief and a prophet, tries to
seduce Anitra, daughter of a Bedouin, and ends up as a guest in the madhouse
in Cairo, where he is hailed as emperor. When at last on his way home as an
old man, he is ship wrecked. Among those on board he has met the Strange
Passenger, who wants to make use of his corpse to find out where dream
shave their seat.
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6. Back home in the parish, he attends a peasant funeral and an
auction where he offers for sale everything from his earlier life. He
also meets the Button-moulder, who maintains that Peer's soul must be
melted down with other faulty goods unless he can explain when and
where in life he has been "himself", and the Lean one, who believes
he cannot be accounted a real sinner who can be sent to hell. Peer, in
ever greater despair, reaches Solveig, who has been waiting for him
in the cabin ever since he left. She tells him that he has always been
himself in her belief, hope and love.
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8.  Henrik Johan Ibsen was born on 20 March 1828. He was a major 19th-
century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often
referred to as "the father of modern theater" and is one of the founders of
Modernism in theatre. Some of his most famous plays include Peer Gynt, A
Doll's House, and Hedda Gabler. He is the most frequently performed
dramatist in the world after Shakespeare.
 Ibsen wrote his plays in Danish (the common written language of Denmark
and Norway) and they were published by the Danish publisher Gyldendal.
Although most of his plays are set in Norway—often in places reminiscent
of Skien, the port town where he grew up—Ibsen lived for 27 years in Italy
and Germany, and rarely visited Norway during his most productive
years. His dramas were shaped by his family background.
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9.  As a child, Henrik Ibsen showed little sign of the theatrical genius he
would become. He grew up in the small Norwegian coastal town of
Skien as the oldest of five children born to Knud and Marichen Ibsen.
His father was a successful merchant and his mother painted, played
the piano and loved to go to the theater. Ibsen himself expressed an
interest in becoming an artist as well.
 The family was through into poverty when Ibsen was 8 because of
problems with his father's business. Nearly all traces of their previous
affluence had to be sold off to cover debts, and the family moved to a
rundown farm near town. There Ibsen spent much of his time reading,
painting and performing magic tricks.
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10.  Ibsen's ancestry has been a much studied subject, due to his perceived
foreignness and due to the influence of his biography and family on his
plays. Ibsen often made references to his family in his plays, sometimes
by name, or by modelling characters after them.
 At fifteen, Ibsen was forced to leave school. He moved to the small town
of Grimstad to become an apprentice pharmacist and began writing
plays. In 1846, when Ibsen was age 18, he had a son from an earlier
relationship. He had fathered an illegitimate child whose upbringing
Ibsen had to pay for until the boy was in his teens with a maid in 1846
while working as an apprentice. While he provided some financial
support, Ibsen never met the boy.
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11.  Ibsen went to Christiania (later renamed Oslo) intending to matriculate at
the university. He soon rejected the idea (his earlier attempts at entering
university were blocked as he did not pass all his entrance exams),
preferring to commit himself to writing. He spent the next several years
employed at Det norske Theater (Bergen), where he was involved in the
production of more than 145 plays as a writer, director, and producer.
During this period, he published five new, though largely unremarkable,
plays. Ibsen returned to Christiania in 1858 to become the creative
director of the Christiania Theatre.
 He married Suzannah Thoresen on 18 June 1858 and she gave birth to
their only child Sigurd on 23 December 1859. The couple lived in very
poor financial circumstances. In 1864, he left Christiania and went to
Sorrento in Italy for a time. There he wrote Brand, a five-act tragedy
about a clergyman. He didn't return to his native land for the next 27
years, and when he returned it was as a noted, but controversial,
playwright.
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12.  In 1868, Ibsen moved to Dresden, Germany where he wrote one of his
most famous works. With Hedda Gabler. Ibsen created one of the
theater's most notorious characters. Hedda, a general's daughter, is a
newlywed who has come to loathe her scholarly husband, but yet she
destroys a former love who stands in her husband's way academically.
The character has sometimes been called the female Hamlet, after
Shakespeare's famous tragic figure.
 In 1891, Ibsen returned to Norway as a literary hero. He may have left as
a frustrated artist, but he came back as internationally known
playwright. For much of his life, Ibsen had lived an almost reclusive
existence. But he seemed to thrive in the spotlight in his later years,
becoming a tourist attraction of sorts in Christiania. He also enjoyed the
events held in his honor in 1898 to mark his seventieth birthday. Ibsen
moved to Munich in 1875 and began work on his first contemporary
realist drama The Pillars of Society, first published and performed in
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13.  Another scathing commentary on the morality of Ibsen's society, in
which a widow reveals to her pastor that she had hidden the evils of
her marriage for its duration. The pastor had advised her to marry
her fiancé despite his philandering, and she did so in the belief that
her love would reform him. But his philandering continued right up
until his death, and his vices are passed on to their son in the form of
syphilis.
 In 1900, Ibsen had a series of strokes that left him unable to write. He
managed to live for several more years, but he was not fully present
during much of this time. Ibsen died on May 23, 1906. His last words
were "To the contrary!" in Norwegian. Considered a literary titan at
the time of his passing, he received a state funeral from the
Norwegian government.
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15.  The portrayal of the Gynt family is known to be based on Henrik Ibsen's
own family and childhood memories; in a letter to Georg Brandes, Ibsen
wrote that his own family and childhood had served "as some kind of
model" for the Gynt family.
 In a letter to Peter Hansen, Ibsen confirmed that the character Åse, Peer
Gynt's mother, was based on his own mother, Marichen Altenburg. The
character Jon Gynt is considered to be based on Ibsen's father Knud
Ibsen, who was a rich merchant before he went bankrupt.
 Even the name of the Gynt family's ancestor, the prosperous Rasmus Gynt,
is borrowed from the Ibsen's family's earliest known ancestor. Thus, the
character Peer Gynt could be interpreted as being an ironic
representation of Henrik Ibsen himself. There are striking similarities to
Ibsen's own life; Ibsen himself spent 27 years living abroad and was never
able to face his hometown again.
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16.  Peer Gynt Drama has the same story with Henrik Ibsen as the
writer. Peer Gynt is Norwegian, Henrik is Norwegian also. The
aspects of Peer Gynt’s life that Henrik tells are like Henrik’s life.
 This drama describes Henrik Ibsen’s life in reality. Peer Gynt as the
main character is the character from the writer himself. Based on
the drama above, Peer Gynt is a son of rich family that suddenly
failed. It also happened by Henrik Ibsen.
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17.  Beside that, peer Gnyt married Solveig. After that, he go to some
places, such as United State, Maroko, Egypt, etc to change his life
to be better. Henrik Ibsen has the same experience as Peer Gynt
in his life. he married Susanna Daae Thoresen and leave her
alone.
 For many years, Solveig waits Peer Gynt’s coming. After Peer
Gynt gets what he wants and to be a success man, he comes back
to his home. It represents what Henrik Ibsen does.
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