Hedda Gabler1
Every man's goals and ambitions for the future vary from one to the next, yet all share a common bond, all hope for their own personal happiness. For Hedda Gabler, happiness may be achieved by and only by controlling the immediate environment around her. Therefore, Hedda, to ensure this somewhat demented happiness, must continuously strive for complete control and domination of the people and objects closest to her. To quench this lust for power, Hedda first attempts to control her husband George Tesman. Unfortunately for Hedda
Eilert becomes Hedda's next unwitting target. But why? In many senses, a child dominates the life of their parent. Hedda finally realizes that she may never completely control her immediate surroundings and must relinquish some power. Moreover, Hedda finds the act of impregnation itself humiliating. Often the idea is casually hinted upon by Miss Tesman, but is then just as casually dismissed by Hedda. Yet ultimately, Hedda is unable to adjust to the world around her and must take her own life. Consequently, Hedda's life hereafter becomes an all out pursuit for power, for which she must now seek elsewhere. A parent must always sacrifice for their child, and herein lies Hedda's dilemma: she refuses to be at someone's beck and call. Let me rephrase that, first, she takes away any reason for Eilert to live, and additionally she gives him means to end his already miserable life. , George offers no resistance to her authority and is quickly manipulated and easily dominated, for he buys his bride the house she so desires with little hesitation. Hedda destroys Eilert's "child," this of course being the manuscript, and then hands him a fully loaded gun. It appears that Hedda is leaving nothing up to chance, in fact, it seems fair to say that she is even controlling Eilert's fate. After all, it is the male who impregnates the woman.
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