Evanthia Peikidou Presentation

In Hedda Gabler by Ibsen, I find the main story is about a married woman who is very unhappy with her marriage, not interested at all with her husband and with her life. You can notice how bored she is and how she does not care about her husband and his work. And then we have Eilert Lovborg. He is an adventurous man, who she is interested in. It is like he is her escape from her miserable life. I was thinking where I have seen this triangle before and it is a very well known one. From a 1997, James Cameron romantic/drama movie. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, the ‘Titanic’. I am guessing if not all, many of us have seen this movie, and I find that it is almost the same story with a few changes. In Titanic, we have our protagonist, Rose, who is also not happy with her upcoming marriage with Cal, and falls in love with the adventurous Jack. Of course there are differences, for example Hedda knew Lovborg from before, but Jack met Rose on the ship for the first time.Another similarity, a small one although, is that both Rose and Hedda wanted to find liberation through suicide. When Jack met Rose, she was trying to jump off the ship in order to get away from her life. Hedda thought that suisideice is the most romantic way to say goodbye to her life, but she actually did it at the end.Cal and Tessmant are very different characters. Tessman is a very ordinary, quiet type of guy, focused on his work. There was nothing bad about him, he wanted for Hedda to have whatever she wanted, and I don’t think that it is particularly his fault that Hedda is so bored with him. On the other hand, Cal is a very arrogant and spoiled man, he is the  bad guy of the story. He didn’t really love Rose and of course it was his fault that she was miserable with their marriage. Another similarity I found in these two stories is that both Lovborg and Jack died in the end. I think Titanic is a little more modern version of Hedda Gabler.