–What motivates Hedda to encourage Lovborg to resume drinking?
–Discuss the role of Thea in the play? What function does she serve?
–What role does class play in Hedda Gabler?
–What does Lovborg’s death mean to Hedda?
–Do you feel sympathetic to Hedda? Why or why not?
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I do not feel sympathetic for Hedda in the least. Hedda is a manipulative woman who takes pleasure in orchestrating chaos around her and does not deserve anyone’s sympathy. What disgusts me most about Hedda’s character is how out of sheer boredom she will go out of her way to upset the lives around her. It is rather fitting that when she goes from manipulator to manipulated she chooses to put an end to her own life ridding those around her of the evil that is Hedda.
Do you feel sympathetic to Hedda? Why or why not?
-Honestly, I don’t feel sympathetic to Hedda because she is mean and untrue person so she deserved to die. She tried to manipulate the relationship her friend Thea and her ex-love Lovberg. What kind of person would do such a thing? She used to love Lovberg. Now, he is not with her but Thea. She should bless them if she loved her friend and her ex-love. However, she drove Lovberg to the death although his death was not the way that she wanted it to be because she wanted to be more powerful over Thea and Lovberg. She had to be punished somehow but she didn’t want to. Therefore, she committed to suicide. Eventually, she did whatever she wanted to do. I guess that she had power til the end of her life.
What motivates Hedda to encourage Lovborg to resume drinking?
Hedda is a very miserable as a person. Her jealousy towards Thea and tendency of being higher of all make hers encouraging Lovborg to drink again. She fails to frame Lovborg during their relationship and breaks up with him. However, when she finds out Thea is happy with Lovborg and helping him making a successful career, she feels jealous. Since Hedda is a pathetic person who wants to be high in the sky, she plans to fail Thea and encourage Lovborg to resume drinking to attain her goal.
Do you feel sympathetic to Hedda? Why or why not?
Hedda is a very complex character and I do not feel any sympathy for her. She does not love her husband and she does not have any respect for Gorge Aunt. When she knew her friend Thea has a relationship with her ex- boyfriend Lovborg, she gets jealous on their relation. So she made a plane to send lovborg to a party where he got drunk. At the end she gives a pistol to Lovborg and he shot himself. She makes everyone’s life measurable around her.
–What motivates Hedda to encourage Lovborg to resume drinking?
Seeing Lovborg actually give up something such as drinking is a big deal. Also to know that it was another woman that caused this, struck Hedda and made her feel as if she needed to end that relationship. Her and Lovborg were former lovers and when they separated Lovberg tried to get her back but “she chased him out with guns”. Now that he has found a nice girl who treats him good he has given up drinking to keep his relationship with his new girl. Hedda is a manipulator and hates the fact that her ex might of lost interest in her. She knows that if he returns to drinking his new girl will most likely leave him for being an alcoholic.
What motivates Hedda to encourage Lovborg to resume drinking?
When Hedda was once linked to Lovborg, it is thought that was his lowest point in terms of drinking and where his life was heading. Hedda is somewhat thought to have caused the drinking problem, or at least couldn’t get him to stop. Being that she is an extremely jealous person, Hedda hates the idea that some other woman could make Lovborg sober up and become successful. That being said, Hedda wanted Lovborg to start drinking again so she could be closer to him again.
Discuss the role of Thea in the play? What function does she serve?
Thea is the foil character in the play and serves as the contrast of Hedda both in looks and personality. Hedda is a manipulative and intelligent character described to have steel grey eyes and dark thin hair. She is more masculine than other women for carrying a gun and not fitting society’s expectations (at that time) of a women in her late 20’s. Thea on the other hand has light white-gold hair, blue eyes, and very rich and voluminous hair. She is a very feminine and sweet person but a little naive and innocent.
–Do you feel sympathetic to Hedda? Why or why not?
HAHA! Why is this even a question!? Hmm the truth is no. This woman is a manipulative, unfriendly person who took control and belittle the people who could have been the closest thing to family than she had in a very long time. In the end after she got her last words then ended her life was probably a good thing for the household. It might have been her ways or other things in her life that got Hedda to the point of being mean her whole life but that doesn’t give an excuse to do or talk the ways she did.
What motivates Hedda to encourage Lovborg to resume drinking?
When Hedda’s finds out that Thea is the reason to why Lovborg stop drinking she feels sort of betrayed , inferior. The fact that a another women was able to do it , it took her back. She wanted an advantage , she wanted to be the one to make him sober. Her jealousy like always got the best of her and couldn’t stand to see someone do good with her.
Do you feel sympathetic to Hedda? Why or why not?
No, I do not feel sympathetic to Hedda because she is manipulative and controlling. She was jealous of her friend, Thea, and her ex-lover, Lovberg, being together. So she dismantles their relationship by burning the manuscript, lying to Lovberg about it and making Lovberg accidentally kill himself. Although she wanted him to die, she wanted him at least have a beautiful death by shooting himself in the head. She could never be pleased about anything.
Do you feel sympathetic to Hedda? Why or why not?
I do not feel sympathetic towards Hedda. She was a selfish, careless person who only seek to hurt others. She was a really demanding person who was never satisfied. She didn’t know what she wanted in life nothing would pleased her. She did everything out of convenience, including her marriage. She didn’t married out of love because in my eyes she wasn’t capable of that. The only thing that would bring happiness to her was the hurting of others. We can see how cruel she is since the first scene she appears on in the story. So when she died i felt no remorse, she wasn’t doing no one a favor by staying alive all she knew was how to hurt.
Do you feel sympathetic to Hedda? Why or why not?
Yes, I feel sympathetic to Hedda. Overall in this story, she is described as selfish, unfriendly, and horrible women. However, those all conversations or actions are happened inside of house, which means she has no opportunities to go out by herself except the honeymoon with George. To me, it looks like an isolation to her from society which makes her unstable mentality.
Do you feel sympathetic to Hedda? Why or why not?
No. Reason for that is because she reminds me of Tartuffe and how she tried to manipulate Lovrborg into killing himself and how she tried to control others for her personal benefit by having this grand maser plan in her head. For people like Hedda who think the world revolves around them, you shouldn’t show sympathy to them because they will never show it back. “They’re better than you after all right?
Do you feel sympathetic to Hedda? Why or why not?
Actually, I feel a little sympathetic for Hedda as she didn’t have the chance to choose the right person. Hedda was in the thirties, an age that people at this time believed that marriage chances decreased after this age. so she rushed toward choosing without having any chance to pick the right person. Everything bad has started from here by planting dissatisfaction and hatred to other people for different reasons. For example, Lovberg who she wished to be her husband, George her husband who has less control than her and shows her no interest at all and Lovberg’s lover who Hedda envies her for having Lovberg in her life. All these reasons pushed her really hard to have such psychiatric disturbances to have these kinds of behaviors with other such as manipulating and selfishness.
solid points there. When you start feeling society’s pressures and your own expectations can start wearing you down physically and mentally. And sympathizing isn’t excusing
What motivates Hedda to encourage Løvborg to resume drinking?
Løvborg changed after leaving Hedda and eventually being with Thea Elvsted. Hedda realizes that whlle she couldn’t change Hedda, Thea was able to. Hedda herself never had much control over Løvborg and even now she is trying to regain control of her life. She encourages Løvborg to resume drinking because she wants to be able to control something—in this case, Løvborg. In summary, the two reasons behind Hedda’s actions are desire for control and jealousy of Thea.
What does Løvborg’s death mean to Hedda?
One of Hedda’s main concerns that she expresses is that Løvborg didn’t die a beautiful death. Løvborg’s death was something that Hedda wished she could have controlled but alas, she couldn’t. She believed in the beauty of being able to decide ones own death. Yet Løvborg died by accident and that too not beautifully. He died with his guts spilling out, with pain and blood. Løvborg’s death is also Hedda’s loss of control.
Do you feel sympathetic to Hedda? Why or why not?
I do not feel sympathetic for her, she is a manipulative individual that truly believes the world revolves around them. She only did it for her benefit.