Quotes related to the search for truth:
The Wild Duck Quotes:
"Greg: I intend to open Hialmar Ekdal's eyes. He shall see his position as it really is-that is all."
"Greg: Yes, an amazingly clever dog; one that goes to the bottom after wild ducks when they dive and bite themselves fast in tangle and sea-weed, down among the ooze."
"Rell: Well, I'll tell you, Mrs. Ekdal. He is suffering from an acute attack of integrity."
Throughout "The Wild Duck", Ibsen uses the motif of searching for truth. Gregers is the one who searches for the truth of the Ekdal family, while the doctor Relling dismisses him as a hopeless idealist and believes that the "life-illusion" should remain intact. The three quotes above show Gregers' belief that he is going to "open the eyes" of Hialmar, and pull him up from "among the ooze" of his father's lies. Relling, on the other hand, diagnoses Gregers with "an acute attack of integrity", and he believes that things will remain better if the Ekdals do not have to face the harsh realities of their lives. The main reason that Ibsen uses this motif of the quest for the truth is to raise the possibility in the audience's mind that sometimes the truth is better left covered up. He does not seem to take one explicit side or the other, but he does raise the question of whether or not the truth should be revealed even if it is harmful.
"Blood Wedding Quotes"
"I just don't know. Suddenly, like this, it always takes me by surprise. It's true, isn't it? Well-behaved. Hard-working. She bakes her own bread, and sews her own skirts, yet I feel, when she's named, as if I'd been struck on the forhead with a stone".
"MOTHER: Do you know my son's fiancee?
NEIGHBOR: A good girl!
MOTHER: Yes, but..."
"MOTHER:Everyone wants to know about what affects them. Who was the boy?
NEIGHBOUR: Leonardo.
MOTHER: Which Leonardo?
NEiGHBOUR: Leonardo...of the Felix family.
MOTHER: (rising) A Felix!"
In "Blood "Wedding", the motif of searching for truth is not as obvious as it is in "The Wild Duck", but it is still kind of present. The character of the mother is the one that is, if not searching for the truth, suspicous about the Bride and her family. Her suspicions later turn out to be correct when the Bride runs away with Leonardo. The main purpose having the mother be suspicious of the son's wedding is probably to forshadow what happens in act 2 when the Bride runs away with Leonardo. This makes it more dramatic when act 2 is shown and the Bride actually does run away with Leonardo.
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