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What does order cost when power claims the right to decide everything?
The Revolt of Mankind is a three-act drama by Finnish writer Lauri Haarla. Its central concerns are power, rebellion and the human cost of absolute control. The stakes lie in the tension between obedience and revolt: what people surrender to authority, and what resistance may demand of them.
Haarla's play belongs to the theatre of the early twentieth century, an age of upheaval in Finland and Europe. Speech is your way into its questions. Attend to how authority speaks and how those beneath it answer. The drama invites you to consider the price of order, rather than take its value for granted.
What you’ll discover
- The price of order Consider what absolute control costs the people who must live under it.
- Rebellion with human stakes Explore revolt as a human struggle, not simply an abstract political idea.
- Power heard through speech Pay attention to the language of authority and the answers it receives.
- Questions without easy comfort Weigh obedience against resistance, with the human cost of control in view.
- A Finnish dramatic perspective Encounter Haarla's theatre against the backdrop of an unsettled early twentieth century.
Who will love it
For readers who like stage drama with big ideas, family quarrels played out on a world scale, and stories about money, labour and conscience. It also suits anyone curious about early twentieth century visions of the future.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Huggs rules the world from his tower
- Power is bought, not held by states
- A rival son appears with a knife
- Robert comes home to accuse his father
- A strike chosen with clear heads
- Kindness, fire and the threat of war
- What the play argues and how it is built
Who’s who
- HuggsA trust magnate who owns the world and prays each morning before a portrait of the woman he loved. He wants his system to outlive him.
- RobertHuggs's elder son, who returns after ten years abroad. He wants to stop his father's rule without a bloody revolt.
- ErnstHuggs's neglected son, a restless pleasure-seeker who leads Catiline's Sons and wants to prove that he is the true heir through destruction.
- GraciosaA cheerful corn girl from the Azores who loves Robert and hopes to heal Huggs with kindness.
- GertrudHuggs's frail young daughter, who fears every disaster in the world and longs for a safe hiding place.
- StraumHarald Straum, a fair-haired engineer of the Union, who stands beside Robert and wins Gertrud's trust.
- FoxHuggs's nervous aide and faithful shadow, who reports news from every continent and carries out orders.
- BerthaHuggs's bitter wife, who wants her children noticed and her husband's love turned from the dead woman's portrait.
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Der Aufstand der Menschheit
by Lauri Haarla
A trust magnate who owns the world demands his son take the throne, and the son answers with a strike.
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The Revolt of Mankind is a three-act play by the Finnish writer Lauri Haarla, set at the start of the third millennium. Its central figure is Huggs, a trust magnate who has bought so much of the earth that he can say he is the state.
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Huggs rules the world from his tower
The play opens in a round study with no windows and a glass dome for a ceiling. Huggs, a thin man of about fifty, sits at his desk. Behind a black curtain is a small shrine with the painting of a young woman, and every morning he kneels there and scatters green branches and red flowers on her altar. Nobody may enter while he prays, and the first sign that his house is troubled is his wife Bertha walking in anyway.
Bertha is bitter. She complains that their son Ernst has come home sick and gloomy, and that Huggs keeps no picture of Ernst or of their daughter Gertrud on his desk. All his love goes to Robert, the son of the dead actress in the painting. Huggs answers that one mind and one world is the harmony of the age, and that Robert will one day be able to say that he owns the world.
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What is The Revolt of Mankind about?
It is a three-act play about Huggs, a trust magnate who owns the world's industry, and his son Robert, who refuses to inherit his power. A strike, a fire and the threat of world war drive the plot.
Who wrote The Revolt of Mankind?
Lauri Haarla, a Finnish poet and playwright who died in 1944, wrote it. The play is set at the start of the third millennium and imagines an age ruled by trusts.
Who is Huggs in The Revolt of Mankind?
Huggs is a trust magnate who has bought up most of the earth, so he claims to be the state. He prays before his dead love's portrait and wants Robert to rule after him.
The author
Lauri Haarla
1890–1944 · Finnish writer
Lauri Haarla was a Finnish writer who lived from 1890 to 1944. He lived and worked in Finland. He wrote novels and plays in Finnish during the first half of the twentieth century. His works include The Revolt of Mankind.
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