Hedda Gabler

After reading Hedda Gabler, there comes this feeling of excitement. The after effect of when Hedda sits down to play the piano ending with her suicide brings the story around in full circle. Even though this death is somewhat shocking at first it begins to make since after sitting and thinking about the kind of woman Hedda Gabler  is. Throughout the entire play Hedda seems to make pawns out of people and toy around with what others seemed to think was “real life.” Hedda seems to toy around, manipulate and thwart the plans and lives the people around her set themselves up for. As for Hedda it seems that she is bored with her life and those around her, however, it seems that as long as she can continue to successfully manipulate the people surrounding her, then her life merits worth. Hedda presents herself as this strong and well-put-together woman who seemingly cares about people other than herself but as the play continues, it becomes more and more apparent that what gives this woman more pleasure than anything is crating this awkward tension between Loveborg and Elvsted forcing them to share their feelings, specifically towards each other, to her. She gets the most excitement in toying around with her friends and her husband making sure that she gets what she wants and everyone else gets what they deserve. The most shocking and interesting points of this play is the portrayal of the visceral anger/misery/disappointment that Hedda must feel as soon as Tesman and Elvsted try to reconstruct the manuscript after her making the draft itself seem like the birth child of Lovborg and Elvsted.  This moment followed by how Brack explains the death of Lovborg as not being quite what Hadda was hoping really build this climax and makes it shocking and engaging when Hedda sits down at that piano and for either reason or both she takes her life (even after she basically makes it seem like she is with child). The end of this  play leaves the audience with this since of appreciation of Hedda but also the confusion of how this scorned woman must have really been thinking.