Pistols

Ibsen is so clever. The way he uses pistols to show the struggle for power and inter conflicts of Hedda. Hedda has General Gabler (her fathers) pistol. She uses it as a tool to scare others for example in Act Two when she tells Judge, "And now Judge I'm going to shoot you" or something like that. She just wants to control others and she uses the pistols to do this. Tesman reacts negatively to them and he is scared. She is taking control of other peoples emotions because thats what she wants, control. This is interesting because at the end of the play, when she takes her own life using her pistol, she is doing this again. Does that mean she took control?