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Hedda Gabler: Top Ten Quotes
Top Ten Quotes Brack: Fortunately, the nuptial journey is at an end Hedda: The journeyll be a long one a long one yet, Ive just come to a stopping-place on the line. Act Two (p. 203) Hedda seizes on Bracks mention of a literal journeythe honeymoon from which she and Tesman have just returned and transforms into a metaphor to express her dissatisfaction with what she views as the tedium that her life has become. Her present situation she views only as a temporary state of affairs. Ironically, however, the only stopping- place at which Hedda will arrive his her own death. Hedda: My impulsiveness had its consequences, my dear Mr. Brack. Brack: Unfortunately impulsiveness does that only too frequently, my lady. Act Two (p. 207) This exchange exemplifies one of Ibsens central themes in Hedda Gabler: namely, that consequences must be faced and resolved satisfactorily in order for live to be lived. Refusing to do so in her own life, Hedda naturally, by Ibsens dramatic logic, fails to live; and her death is the natural consequence of that failure. Hedda: Oh courage oh yes! If only one had that Then life might be livable, in spite of everything. Act Two (p. 221) Hedda expresses her desire to see courage within others and herself, a recurring motif in the drama. Ironically, of course, her suicide at the plays end shows the ultimate failure to live and act courageously (which would entail confronting and coping with the consequences of ones actionssee the previous quotation). Mrs. Elvsted: Youve got some reason for all this, Hedda! Hedda: Yes, I have. For once in my life I want to feel that I control a human destiny. Mrs. Elvsted: But surely you do already? Hedda: I dont, and I never have done. Act Two (p. 226) Concomitant with Heddas professed desire for courage is her stated desire for control, not only of her own fate but also the fates of those around her. Ibsen may be suggesting that the desire to grasp and wield such control is actually a mask for failure to recognize ones own vulnerability and subjection to social forces. Lvborg: Ive torn my own life to pieces. So I might as well tear up my lifes work as well. Mrs. Elvsted: And you did that last night! Lvborg: Yes, I tell you. Into a thousand pieces. And scattered them out in the fjord. A long way out. At least the waters clean and salt out there. Theyll drift with the current and the wind. And after a while theyll sink. Deeper and deeper. Like I will, Thea. Mrs. Elvsted: I want you to know, Lvborg, what youve done to the book For the rest of my life itll be for me as though youd killed a little child. Act Three (p. 243) This exchange establishes Lvborgs manuscript as a concrete symbol of the future, a future that, through Heddas rash action, Mrs. Elvsted and Lvborg will now never realize. It adds further moral weight to Heddas actions, for what she has done is now, in the plays logic, equivalent to murder. This, too, is a consequence Hedda refuses to face. Its a liberation [for me] to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty. Hedda, Act Four (p. 258) This statement is Heddas evaluation of Lvborgs actions when Hedda is led to believe that Lvborg has shot himself. It shows the audience Heddas fundamental misidentification of impulsive destructiveness (as in her own suicide, shortly to transpire) with courage and control. Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical. Hedda, Act Four (p. 259) These words form one of Heddas truer statements in the course of the play. Hedda, however, never explores the reasons that this dynamic should be so in her life. The context of the play as a whole suggests that it is due to her refusal to grapple with the consequences of her actions, her refusal to grow and become more than General Gablers daughter. Hedda: Id sooner die! Brack: People say such things. But they dont do them. One day, a person $5 went to... I ca n't Act Four (p. 262) pa This exchange y foreshadowing of the plays falling action; Hedda does, of course, kill herself in What isemerges a CPUasand an ironic the end. an what r... Hedda: And so I am in your power, y Mr. Brack. From now on I am at your mercy. Brack: Dearest Hedda believe me thi I shall not abuse the position. Hedda: In your power, all the same. ngSubject to your will and demands! No longer free! Act Four (p. 262) for Hedda here expresses her revulsion it.at being under anyones control but her own. 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