Hedda Gabler

William Shakespeare’s Othello and Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler both have master manipulators who are the center of their plays. It would be fair to compare both Iago and Hedda in the ways that they monopolize themselves on others. Although both characters portray manipulation in different ways they both are feeding off of the power aspect that they gain from manipulating people that they are close to. In their respective plays, they not only seem to be the dominate characters but also seem to go…

Hedda Gabler is a play by Ibsen, published during his fame and revered by many. Ibsen perfectly portrays drama and a put together play, showcasing a story of real people who act as real people do as much as they do not want to admit it. Hedda, a general’s daughter who is a high class woman, marries a modest man, George Tesman. The play begins after they return from their honeymoon to beautiful house, which Tesman has bought for Hedda. Although Tesman keeps saying that Hedda is “filling out,”…

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…

In 1891, Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler debuted at the Residenzentheater in Munich, Germany. Hedda Gabler has been adapted to screen several times since it's original 1891 run, though the majority of English translated versions remained televised adaptations. The most notable stage to screen adaptation is the 1975 remake which was adapted and directed by Trevor Nunn and stared Peter Eyre, Patrick Stewart, Glenda Jackson as the titular character. This version garnered critical acclaim from the New…

back to the post renaissance era, the concept of a journey can be regarded as a nonphysical one. This concept of a nonphysical journey is seen through the stories of “The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri and “Hedda Gabler” by Henrik Ibsen. The journeys of the two protagonists, Gogol Ganguli and Hedda Gabler are comparable of one another whereas both individuals experience his or her own personal journey and that as a result of his or her journey, both individuals experience some form of growth. Then…

Similarly the theme to Hedda Gabler is the reality that life manipulates you more than you can manipulate life. Judge Brack illustrates this theme because he is one of the only people that Hedda cannot manipulate. Both of these characters became so oppressive because of their own personal motives that drove them to act the way they do. Judge Brack can be viewed as the male counterpart to Hedda, while at the same time be viewed as her greatest enemy. Throughout the play Hedda attempts to…

Individuals learn new things about themselves every day. They go through different pressures and actions that help them better understand themselves. In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Nora Helmer was a character who transitioned throughout the play. Nora recognized and learned new things about herself from dealing with many different life changing problems and situations. It took one incident for Nora to learn that throughout her whole life she was never happy. This is a true example of someone…

August Strindberg in the play ‘Miss Julie’ communicates the complicated and conflicted mind of the character Miss Julie through her actions in the play. Despite her materialistic fortune, her parents’ absence throughout her life, her mother’s lies, and rejection of her as a girl & a daughter shapes her into an empty shell of a person. The story reveals her effort to escape the cipher of her being as she ‘uses’ Jean and in the end commits suicide, in order to not be a nothing even if it means to…

A Doll’s House Coursework - 187 Social, Cultural, Historical and Political Context As A Doll’s House was written in Norway’s first wave of Feminism there were very few supporters of it, meaning that many events in the play would have been shocking for the 19th Century audiences. Nora taking out a loan without her husband’s permission, and her leaving her husband are the two key events in the play that show how little independence women had thus being the most shocking. Ibsen was a supporter of…

Henrik Johan Ibsen has a prominent place in the genre of realism in theatre. He is called the father of realism and modern drama. He was born on March 20, 1828 in Skien, Norway to Knud Ibsen and Marichen Altenburg. His father was a general merchant. Henrik Ibsen’s childhood was full of poverty because of his father’s financial setbacks. At the age of 15, he stopped going to school and joined as an apprentice in an apothecary in Grimstad. The poverty had a strong influence on his plays. He had…