7/6/2023 0 Comments Knut hamsun pan![]() Once again, in Victoria, Iselin appears as a character from one of Johannes’s fictional writings. In Even Arntzen’s article, “ Munken Vendt-på sporet av Knut Hamsuns mytiske estetikk,” he considers the characters fantasy figures that arise from Glahns’s mind (Arntzen 1996). ![]() In Pan, Hamsun initially introduces Iselin as an amorous nature spirit, a legend that comes alive when the protagonist enters the northern forest. While many scholars focus on Glahn’s and Johannes’s respective troubled relationships with mortal women, they discuss Iselin, a nature spirit, only in respect to Glahn’s relationship with nature and his ideal of a feminine woman. In Victoria, Hamsun writes of Johannes Møller, the son of a miller, who falls in love with the daughter of a landowner, Victoria, who returns his love, but cannot show him her love due to her familial responsibilities. Due to an inability to engage in social interactions as he feels more akin to nature, Glahn cannot properly continue his relationship with Edvarda. In Pan, the male protagonist, Thomas Glahn, meets Edvarda, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, and attempts to consummate his love for her. ![]() Knut Hamsun’s novels Pan and Victoria focus on the tragedies of the attainment of love and then its subsequent loss due to the pressures of social conventions and responsibilities. ![]()
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