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Hedda Gabler - College Essay

Hedda Gabler

's personality type is of a different character than Nora Helmer's. She expresses herself wickedly, for her own enjoyment; not caring of other peoples feelings. Hedda has feelings of confinement and frustration, with her life, and directs her bottled up energy at people with an ill temperament. "Life becomes for Hedda a ridiculous affair that isn't worth seeing to the end. Life isn't tragic…life is ridiculous…and that's what I can't bear" (Henrik Ibsen's Notes). Hedda doesn't want to know and face the reality that she's pregnant. For her, this would mean she is permanently trapped in her life, with no chance of escaping. Hedda ended up married to her husband George Tesman, because ...

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What do you intend to do?
LOVEBORG. Nothing! Just put an end to it all. The sooner the better.
HEDDA (coming a step closer). Eilet Loveborg - listen to me. Couldn't you arrange that - that it's done beautifully?
LOVEBORG. Beautifully? (Smiles.) With vine leaves in my hair, as you used to dream in the old days- (Hedda 287)
Hedda supplies Eilert with the pistol to kill himself with, so he would make her fantasy of a romantic tragedy come true. When it doesn't, and turns into a mess where she will be the one blamed, Hedda is pushed over the edge, and losses complete control. She can no longer handle her confined, impulsive feelings, and makes her death become the reality she craves.
TESMAN (shrieking to Brack). Shot herself! Shot herself in the temple! Can you imagine!
BRACK (in the armchair, prostrated). But, good God! People don't do such things!
Henrik Ibsen created these two characters as an expression of life. Nora acted like a wife was ...

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Added: 8/3/2007 05:08:56 PM
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