comparison

hedda reminds me of adela from house of bernarda for many reasons. they both go after what they want. adela wanted pepe and nothing stopped her from being with him while hedda wants power and she constantly tries to get it. in the end of both plays they were both pregnant and killed themselves.

Spoiled

the reason hedda is the way she is, is becasue of her childhood. her rich general father gave her every thing she wanted so now that she is grown she expects still to have everything. although George can not endow her with all the luxuries she wants she still tries to squeeze it out of him

Main

this whole play is about a woman trying to get control over her life in one way or another. hedda tries to manipulate everyone around her. she sees this as a way to get power, but in the end of the play she starts loosing power when she can not manipulate anyone any more, so she kills herself

New Woman Part 2

Although Hedda is not fully considered a “new woman” she has many of the traits and the personality that complementary to this title. She can be seen as a new woman shoved into Old Woman trappings, and who thus naturally gravitates towards pushing limits, pulling strings, and manipulating others in the hopes of freeing herself. She is a New Woman, then, looking for her place in life. She constantly pushes against the limits which society imposed on women. Unlike many women of the time she did not get married when she very young but waited until she was a little bit older. She married a man she didn't love simply because her "time ran out". The thought of bearing a child is something which she refuses to consider unlike the old woman who sees one of her sole purposes is to have children.

Intentions

I think that all of Hedda's actions are intricately planned out. She intentionally and maliciously does and says things to get a certain action from others. A perfect example of this is the incident with Aunt Julies hat. she deliberately said that she thought it was the maids hat because she wanted her to get angry

Old woman

In the play the perfect example of an “old woman” is George Tesman’s aunt, Juliana Tesman. The “Old Woman” believes in self-sacrifice, a woman's duty to her husband, and sexuality only in terms of childbearing. Although she never has children or a husband Aunt Juliana was dedicated to her role as a woman. You could say that she saw George as her own child and dedicated her whole life to raising and serving him. She is constantly hinting that Tesman and Hedda should have a baby. This is in high contrast wit the thoughts that of Hedda.

New Woman

Mrs. Elvsted is an of a “new woman”. Even though at first she gave in to the pressures of society and lived the life an “old woman”. When she was a young woman she got married and had two children. When she realized that she was not satisfied with her current life she divorced her husband and left their estate and moves to the city. In this time period it was very uncommon for a woman to leave her husband, especially if they had children. She did not believe that just because she was a woman that it was her duty to play the role of caretaker. In Lovborg’s manuscript a lot of Mrs. Elvsted thoughts are present in the manuscript that Lovborg wrote. Women did not usually write or help by inputting their thoughts into the work in which Lovborg was doing.

George vs Lovburg part 2

Ibsen sets the brilliant writer as an exact counterpart to the medieval scholar in many ways. Where one is erratic, the other is steady; one deals with abstract and philosophical problems, the other concerns himself with concrete and detailed minutiae. Because of these qualities, however, Lövborg, a representation of the discontinuity in living a free life, cannot carry on his work. George, on the other hand, representing the continuity of living a structured life, is able to take up Lövborg’s work and eventually fulfill the writer’s promise of greatness. With this situation, Ibsen seems to imply a balance of human forces: the erratic genius is necessary to provide the impelling idea, but the character who is gifted with less imagination and an ability to work hard at concrete details is the one able to realize the idea.

George vs Lovburg

George’s bumbling ordinariness contrasts vividly and humorously with Lövborg’s flamboyant and creative brilliance. Where George writes about the “domestic industries of in the middle ages,” Eilert works on a book dealing with the “civilizing forces” of humanity in the future. George delights in researching among old manuscripts while Lövborg considers the problems of the future. George can be seen as a man of the past, who conforms to tradition while Lövborg can be viewed as a man of the future, an enlightened man who goes against the constraints of the life of an alleged “ordinary” man.

The Pistols

The pistols Hedda carries are a sign of her power, or the power that she wishes to have. Without these guns she loses this so called power. We can see this when after she points and "accidentally" fires the pistols at judge Brack he then takes her power away (the pistols).