Sunday, October 26, 2008
Hedda was Pregnant Right?
I don't really get the point of Hedda being pregnant in the book. I mean Ibsen kind of alludes to the fact that she is in the beginning and then? She committed suicide and no one says anything about the fact that she had taken two lives...so what was the point? Was it just to show her character because he could of just had her state that she didn't want to have children or something? I guess it does add a little something to the book, but not much. Really its just another unanswered question at the end of the book.
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I thought about this, and I think Hedda's pregnancy is Ibsen's illustrating that she is bound to being a woman. Hedda tries so hard to be masculine in her power, but her pregnancy shows that she can't escape from what she is, and she should instead accept and embrace her femininity.
I think Hedda was pregnant because George kept hinting at the fact that Hedda was gaining weight. Symbolically speaking I would also say that Hedda's pregnancy reminds her that she is bound to be a woman playing a woman's role.
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