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82 Galton and Pearson’s work suggested specific ideas to Shaw. ”83 In this lecture, Galton explained his classification system for human beings, relying on Pearson’s statistical models, in which humans range from inferior types (labeled u/t/s/r) to superior types (R/S/T/U/V). Galton also granted the possibility of exceptional types (W/X/Y), but noted their increasing rarity from W to Y, the most extraordinary. 85 On discovering the lack of Supermen, she cries, “Not yet created! Then my work is not yet done.

Ibsen’s three plays chart a movement from disease as a private, underground concern to disease as it relates to public policy, and to what will be identified as eugenic issues of individual and social control. Ibsen takes up the question of breeding the “perfect man” less in Ghosts and more in the following play, An Enemy of the People (1882), in which 36 Mendel’s Theatre the play’s literal disease is contagious, but not inherited. In An Enemy of the People, sewage-tainted water threatens to contaminate baths that could generate tourism and prosperity in a small Norwegian city.

71) and Ellida’s harping on the “mystery of the child’s eyes” in The Lady from the Sea. For Strindberg, a child’s eyes often reflect the other character’s immediate state of mind, usually a conflicted, free-floating anxiety. In Ibsen, what looks out of this new generation of eyes is the disturbing, mysterious attempt to recognize and reconcile the past’s complexity in the present. In the work of both playwrights, the idea of the child’s eyes provides a way for an audience to make sense out the ways in which the characters make sense.

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