Hedda Gabler Essay, Research Paper

HEDDA GABLER

The more I read and look into Hedda Gabler the more I like it

and appreciate Ibsen s efforts. It is kind of a pre-modernistic soap

opera. Each character exhibits a complex set of traits, some good and

some wicked. All the traits play off of one another and create depth

and familiarity.

The work seems to be far beyond Ibsen s time. it has more than

enough drama, suspense and mystery to be transformed to a screen

in the twenty first century. He somehow understood how to make

characters alive and more dimensional and more appealing despite

their sometimes purposeful mischief.

His carefully created setting also lays hand to his detailed

masterpiece. Every line, every thought propels his plot and fits like

the pieces of a puzzle. H1e must have known the end before he wrote

the beginning to make all the details precise.

Possible he knew this women, Hedda. Could characters be made

up so to have the flaws of hers? Maybe he saw in himself Tesman or

Jorgen, maybe they too were real people.

Although this is a wonderfully entertaining and thought

provoking play I really feel that analyzing it more than I already have

will take away some of the effect. I think I have written everything I

have to say about Hedda Gabler, but I hope to see this play made into

a blockbuster movie sometime in my life.