Word: restless
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...starts on a romantic quest after authority and empire. Next, Peer Gynt appears as a fabulously rich merchant prince, and his wanderings in several climes are portrayed, but his worldly life is not sufficient to blot out the old Peer Gynt. Finally, he returns to Norway, unsatisfied, and restless, to seek the love of his youth. Here the consciousness of his ill-spent life is strong upon him, and his state of mind is portrayed in some wonderful passages, in which Peer Gynt is claimed by Buttonmoulder, the symbolization of evil, but is redeemed in the end by the constancy...