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BitaTruble -> RE: Need a little help (11/8/2006 10:31:05 PM)
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ORIGINAL: deadlylover
All right. So I'm in a Poetry and Drama class and we have a paper due at the end of this term. It has to be over one point in any of the poems or plays we have read. Now, before you go any further, you need to have read Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen to really give me some help with my dilemma.
Anyway. I was thinking of trying to argue the fact that she was pregnant (which is implied in the play). Do you think it would work any, and be about 5 pages long, double-spaced? I really want to do Hedda because the play was something I absolutely enjoyed. Everything else has been if-y for me and I won't touch Shakespeare since that is his main "area". Any comments would be helpful! Thank you all.
Hmm.. actually, I think it's made very plain that not only is she 'not' pregnant, she has no intention of getting pregnant. I know it can appear as if they lead in that direction after the return from the wedding tour and George mentions a few times how she's filled out, but don't forget that George see's her how he wants to see her and not as she truly is. Remember when she's speaking with Judge B and they talk about her vocation and how adament she was in saying she wanted no such responsibility as a woman might have and he told her to tell him that again in a year or so? Plus, she speaks of how bored she is, she actually dislikes the house and when it's suggested that one of the rooms would be useful (implied as a nursey) she gives absolutely no indication that such would be happening, something one would expect a woman who knew she was pregnant to at least consider.
When George gets excited over the 'news' it not news that she's pregnant, but that she actually loves him, which coming from her, his Goddess, is huge for him.
I understand why the play appeals once she acknowledges she's the slave of Judge B for the information he holds over her .. and, of course, it has a perfect ending.. as Hedda would say.. It's beautiful. ::chuckles:: I don't think an argument can be made for pregnancy however, though one could certainly be made against it and George's blindness to all but what he wants to see could probably get you 5 pages, double spaced. :)
JMO
Celeste
edited to add: The reference to the lose fitting gown in act 1 is effectively countered by the mourning dress after the aunt dies in act 4. Hedda wouldn't have had time to have a dress made for mourning after the aunt died if she were actually pregnant.
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