–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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Of course when it comes to someone death you have to sympathise but in this case it is a bit different. Hedda orchestrated everything, throughout the play she is been manipulating all the others characters. We never been able to identify who she was really in love with. When Brack told her about Ejlert death her only concern was beautyof is death, she did not even try to help Ejlert on the contrary she gave him a pistol. Hedda in this play heartless and egocentric.
What motivates Hedda to encourage Lovborg to resume drinking?
Hedda wants to be able to control everyones destiny. She is set on having power over everyone so motivating Loveborg to resume drinking is a power move for Hedda. She is proving to herself that she still has power over Loveborg. She also did this to take back the power she had over him in the past from Thea. Hedda didn’t like the relationship Thea and Lovborg had because Thea was able to motivate Lovborg to do things which means less power Hedda had over Lovborg.
perfectly rigth Hedda interest is all about getting the power on loveborg back over Thea. Therefore getting Loveborg to his drinking habit will be a colossal victory against her childhood enemy.
–What motivates Hedda to encourage Lovborg to resume drinking?
Hedda wants to show Thea that she isn’t the only one with power over Lovborg. Thea told Hedda that Lovborg stopped drinking because of her, that somehow she was the cure of his alcoholism. Hedda feels jealous because controlling people is her ultimate goal, so she convinces Lovborg to go to a party and drink. By doing this, Hedda shows Thea that she influences Lovborg’s actions too, that she can control him.
What motivates Hedda to encourage Lovborg to resume drinking?
– Hedda’s remarks about Lovborg’s inability to fight the urge at the stag party is what triggers him to finally drink the punch. Her motivation primarily comes from her desire to assert control over other characters in the play. However, there seems to be a more personal motivation because Mrs. Elvsted, the foil character of Hedda Gabler, changed Lovborg as a man and is the cause of his recovery towards sobriety. Hedda seems to be jealous of Mrs. Elvsted and to show her who is boss, Hedda will do anything to get Lovborg to his old drunk self again.
What motivates Hedda to encourage Lovborg to resume drinking?
Hedda was motivated to encourage Lovborg to resume drinking because it showed that she had control over him. She was upset that it was due to Thea that he had stop drinking. Which basically meant Thea had contorl of Loveborg that she was able to convince this guy stop drinking. So she was almost competing with Thea, in this game of who has more control over Loveborg. This was the primary reason the Hedda encourged Loveborg to stop drinking. Hedda struggles with this idea of controlling someone’s destiny throughout the story. She felt she could finallt obtain this dream by Loveborg.
–Do you feel sympathetic to Hedda? Why or why not?
As the protagonist of the play, Hedda Gabler’ eccentric actions and manipulations toward others portrayed her as one of the most influential female characters with unbelievable capabilities of undeniable cessation that neither any typical female characters had ever possed within a play. Unquestionably, her character raised as equally as of any man yet, mistreated by the general society of that time. Ultimately, generating an immense desire for power and experiments towards extensive manipulation of one’s influence and its limits. Nevertheless, ending with the bizarre self-destruction by a “beautiful” shot in a temple.” However, I do not feel any sympathy towards her death which is not very ironic and somewhat more restrained. Whereby, her shoot is a pure acceptance of defeat rather than relief from one’s restraints. In other words, even the slightest attempt of self-destruction in front of Judge and Tesman would have been adequate to intimate her thoughts of pure freedom.
–What does Lovborg’s death mean to Hedda?
Upon first learning about Eilert Lovborg’s death from the Judge she is in secret delight. Hedda is happy to hear this news because she believes that Lovborg committed suicide by shooting himself in the head which is an idea she provided Lovborg. For Hedda this would be the first time she held another persons life or destiny in her hands and in this she finds great delight. However later when the Judge reveals the true circumstances behind Lovborg’s death, he did not in fact die from a self inflicted gunshot to the head but instead a accidental shot to the groin in a brothel, and blackmails Hedda she is immediately flipped on her head as now she realizes that not only did she never truly hold any ones life in her hands, her own life was in someone else’s.
5) I do not feel sympathetic to hedda because she was the one who gave Lovburg a gun by which he shoot himself and die because she cannot see Thea and Lovburg living happily meaning she was jealous of them. She was the main cause of all problems that take place in the play.
Do you feel sympathetic to Hedda? Why or why not?
No, not at all. Hedda’s use of manipulation, causing Lovburg to start drinking, convincing him to shoot himself and manipulating Thea’s feelings of Lovburg clearly show that this woman cannot be an ideal protagonist. True, it can be said that Hedda is doing this out of jealousy, thinking that Lovburg and Thea are getting too close to each other. This clearly shows that Hedda is out of her mind just to prove that her influence is still effective upon Lovburg and anyone else she comes into contact with. Hedda’s personality is quite toxic as well, her attitude towards her husband and in-laws clearly shows that she is a cold person. Therefore, I do not feel any sympathy for Hedda, her death was her way of escaping rectification.
2. Thea is the foil of Hedda; Thea’s role is a fundamental motivator of Hedda’s actions, for the envy Hedda has always carried towards Thea slowly bubbles up to surface in forms that are characteristic of a mentally unstable person, as Hedda Gabler is.
What motivates Hedda to encourage Lovborg to resume drinking?
Hedda needs/craves control. Throughout the play, Hedda tries to manipulate everyone. Lovborg and Hedda used to be an item. Hedda did not like the fact that he was different from the Lovborg she once knew so, she tried to revert him to his old self. The fact that Thea was able to stop Lovborg from drinking didn’t sit well with Hedda – this was one less person that Hedda had control over.
–What does Lovborg’s death mean to Hedda?
When Hedda finds out that Lovborg died, we know that Hedda is happy and proud of her “accomplishments.” She was the one that gave him the gun, and she was the one that convinced him that he should take his own life to save himself. But when Hedda finds out that Lovborg didn’t die the beautiful death she thought her did, it ruined her. Apparently, Lovborg accidentally discharged the firearm and shot himself in the groin, and later bleed out. That was the opposite of a beautiful and freeing suicide. Not only does Hedda not get the satisfaction, but she also gets caught for giving Lovborg the gun. This gave Judge Brack an opportunity to blackmail her, the final straw for Hedda, causing her to shoot herself in the head, the “right” way to die.
–Do you feel sympathetic to Hedda? Why or why not?
I do feel sympathetic toward Hedda in the sense that she was unable to overcome her boredom, desire for power, and manipulation, characteristics that ate her up and led to her own destruction. As this story shows, she is a rounded character and has many layers to her personality. Looking deeper into Hedda’s cold character, the reader gets a hint of why she became so cold. For one, she has married Tesman not because she loved him, but because she was the daughter of a general, and has come of age where everyone expected her to marry. This marriage was something out of her control, meaning that at this point she could not really control her own life. Since Hedda could not control this part of her life, she uses manipulation, boredom, and desire for power to at least try to control what happens to the people around her. Nothing else matters to her anymore which is why she treats her life as a big game. In this sense, I feel bad that she was unable to look at life differently and that no one was able to melt her cold heart so that better sides of her personality would open up. In the end, she felt locked in the cage that both society and herself have build, which ultimately led to her own destruction.
Do you feel sympathetic to Hedda? Why or why not?
Even if Hedda is living a life in unhappiness there is no excuse to be hurtful towards others. It is hard to feel sympathy towards Hedda Gabler because of her actions. She is not a virtuous person. She tries to bring others down to her level of misery. For example, she pushes an alcoholic to start drinking again, she destroys a book and tries to convince a heartbroken man to commit suicide.
–Discuss the role of Thea in the play? What function does she serve?
Thea plays the “foil” of Hedda. She shows the perspective of the complete opposite of who Hedda is as a person, from her hair, appearances, down to personality. Also, Thea is who Hedda somewhat wanted to be as a person but wasn’t quite enough.