This was my first time reading Hedda Gabler. Although I have heard of the author Henrik Ibsen before, A Doll's House was the only work I’m familiar with. Hedda Gabler was written in the very late stage of Ibsen’s life. Different than A Doll's House, Hedda didn’t run away from the house like Nora, she ran away from the entire world by choosing to end her own life.
Hedda Gabler was a really short play with a pretty straightforward story. There were only a few characters which could be count on fingers. The plots are not that dramatic compare to a lot of modern plays. The storyline was pretty clear around Hedda: Hedda was raised in a rich family and married to a man she didn’t love but thought was matching her social status. After their honeymoon, Hedda found her husband George …show more content…
Different than the innocent and loving character Cordelia, Hedda was more aggressive and ungrateful. To be honest, I didn’t like her since the beginning, she seems like a hedgehog, hurting surrounding people. But as I go deeper into the play, I started to understand her, because I could see some bit of myself through her. Same feeling could be put into study or life. We are not satisfied about what we have and always wanted for best. Her insanity might be unique and not plain, but it’s surely the most ordinary mental disorder among all of us. In this stressful society, being demanding to ourselves becomes a social norm. We are asking for what seems to be matching, but seldom question what we really love. Most of us went to college because almost all of our peers went to college, and a bachelor degree seem to be a must have to be competitive in the future. But we all like Hedda being trapped in the standard that the society value while holding our opposite fragile dream. We are killing ourselves softly, not like Hedda for the physical abuse, but mentally, we are deeply paralyzing ourselves for doing what we don’t
Hedda Gabler was a really short play with a pretty straightforward story. There were only a few characters which could be count on fingers. The plots are not that dramatic compare to a lot of modern plays. The storyline was pretty clear around Hedda: Hedda was raised in a rich family and married to a man she didn’t love but thought was matching her social status. After their honeymoon, Hedda found her husband George …show more content…
Different than the innocent and loving character Cordelia, Hedda was more aggressive and ungrateful. To be honest, I didn’t like her since the beginning, she seems like a hedgehog, hurting surrounding people. But as I go deeper into the play, I started to understand her, because I could see some bit of myself through her. Same feeling could be put into study or life. We are not satisfied about what we have and always wanted for best. Her insanity might be unique and not plain, but it’s surely the most ordinary mental disorder among all of us. In this stressful society, being demanding to ourselves becomes a social norm. We are asking for what seems to be matching, but seldom question what we really love. Most of us went to college because almost all of our peers went to college, and a bachelor degree seem to be a must have to be competitive in the future. But we all like Hedda being trapped in the standard that the society value while holding our opposite fragile dream. We are killing ourselves softly, not like Hedda for the physical abuse, but mentally, we are deeply paralyzing ourselves for doing what we don’t