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Title: Hedda Gabler by Jon Robin Baitz, Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey, Susan Faludi, Henrik Ibsen ISBN: 0-8021-3806-3 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 10 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "you can always hope...to be top dog?"
Comment: Hedda Gabler. Created by Ibsen at the turn of the last century, this character can still find its place comfortably amongst contemporary literature. Hedda's sweeping dark and private personality, from her purposely bitter remarks to her burning up a saved manuscript, lets the reader in on some insight as to the constant turning and scheming that goes on in her mind. Her world is one as ironic as it is constricted and in her own ways and through her own methods, can she try to make the most of what she determines life should be.
Rating: 3
Summary: Boring Hedda
Comment: Hedda Gabler was a boring coniving woman. She married George Tesman only because she was getting older and she needed to be with someone of a decent status. Hedda and George are not a perfect match. Hedda prefers to live in a world of murder and mystery while George likes to research, read, and write books. Hedda obviously finds this boring since she grew up as a militant tomboyish girl. Her boredom leads her to corrupt the live of others live Lovborg and Mrs. Elvsted. She certainly would have preferred to be with Lovborg, but his status would not allow her. Therefore, she finds a way to make Lovborg's life a living hell by persuading him to kill hisself after he feels guilty of losing the only thing that gives him and Mrs. Elvsted life and hope. The only person in the play that gives Hedda a sense of entertainment is Judge Brack. Like Hedda, Judge Brack also wants to see some drama therefore, he stays close to Hedda because he knows that she is capable of doing something malicious. While doing so, he black males her into being his slave for life.
I think Hedda Gabler is someone that people can relate to in the new millennium. She is one of those characters that people can see on television or right next door in their neighborhood. I also appreciated the easy reading. I think when Ibsen wrote this play he had a futuristic vision.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Malicious Implacable Hedda Gabler
Comment: Many people view Hedda as a heroine who was trapped in a world that was not comparable to her train of thought;however I view her as a malicious implacable twisted woman. Nothing in which she did suprised me at all. I felt no remorse in her passing but rather a deliberate sigh of relief. The only thing she ever had to offer was sarcastic insults and low blows to one's intelligence. At the age of 29 Hedda possed the strife and iniquity of a woman twice her age.
Hedda lives in a mans world having been raised by her father who was militant. She strives not to let being a woman hinder her from lifes adventures, so she goes things that most men do. She has a nick for blowing things up and anything that gets in her hands is destroyed. She made all women in her presence succomb to her aggressivenss, all men fell prey to her wit and beauty.
Hedda married Tesman to appear as if she was doing something with her life. He may have been inherently smart but he was naive to the ways of Hedda. Lovburg was a smart man and he could carry on a descent conversation with Hedda but he was pathetic in a sense. It seemed as if he lead a double life and I viewd him as being a drifter. The only person who was on her level of equal intelligence truly was Judge Brack. He understood her and read her like a book; they were literally the same person. He did find her escapades to be quite amusing but at the same time he kind of held a grudge towards her amybe from some past rendezvous.In the end his name Judge took total effect. He held Hedda's fate in his hand and she was not about to let him win that easily. Hedda didn't prove to bite as loud as her bark because she finished herself off when she lost power and control of a situation in which she started.
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