Motifs/ Theme Ideas

I should really get some sleep! ANyway I've been look at the stage directions and it got me thinking. Not only does Hedda move around continuously(its like she has restless leg syndrome or something) but she also has a specific spot: The glass door. That woman loves her some glass door. I think that a motif is opposities or hidding one's true's feelings by placing one's self in an opposite posstion or diaplaying an opposite emotion. Like Hedda whenever she's lying is in front of the Glass door which would usually symbolize openness.Also not only the glass door but when ever she gets angry about something she laughs. It seems that in order to secure her image as a "lady" she acts opposite to how she feels? Message! Maybe Ibsen is commenting on the roles that women have to play in society??? Possibly.
Also I noticed that George says:"Can you Imagine!" while Hedda says"Ican Imagine?" even when they're not in the same conversation they use this identifying phrase. George asks a question because he is the unsure one and righteous Hedda simply states it. I thought it was like a functional opposite call & response. I think its kinda cute.

Whoa!!

This was one crazy act because it was all:
"Suprise"
"I'm a secret scum-bag"
"I wanna be the only cock in your hen house or I'll KILLyou"
"Ha, Ha creepy stalker dude"
"I love so much it breaks my heart"
To explain: So George is a super jerk-face because I think he's so insecure and scared of the fact that Lovborg's book is gonna be a thousand and one times better than hus that he purposely didn't give him the manuscript after he found it. The fact that he keeps saying,"for his sake ofcourse"<--- Ummm, No you're doing it for you and the money and prestige that is the professorship. I was hella heart-broken when this happened because I had so much faith in George's simplicity and naivity. How dare he be as manipulative and caniving as his wifee.[not a type-o I really want to bring back the word wifee] So anyway to Eilhertwho is just the sweetnest most compassionate man EVER!! The self-sacrifice. The love.OMG. The way he and Thea refer to the manuscript as their baby. Aww...
When he says"But killing his child-that's the worst thing a father can do" I almost cried because eventhough it was his future that Tesman stole, he was thinking about "the purity of Thea's soul". So selfless. I think they might be the only loving relationship in this play.
Brack- Can we say creep. He is so crazy. He wants to be the only one having an affair with Hedda? Really guy that's a life goal? That's something you want to fight for? The fact that he is so adiment(sp?) about it too is hilarious. You're not even supposed to be the cock in her life. And what was that craziness about not having to shoot tame roosters? Was that a threat against Tesman? I will call him a cock killer from now on for two reasons

• it's funny
• I'm actually that immature

Hedda McWhore-Meanie(it's one word) was just as vile in this act as the others. She actually got pleasure out of seeing Thea's heart broken in front of her. That's horrible. This is the first time I haven't loved Hedda. She's just unnecessarily mean. Like WTF you get no immediate reward from her pain. He doesn't love you. You don't love him. WTF<--- It's upsetting. When she's all "Now I'm burning-I'm burning your child" what does that mean? Is she the child? Is she going to hell? Why isn't she bothered by this?

Awkward Moments

So...there's three people in this room and two of them are ex-lovers.Wow!! Thea is so sad in this section .She starts crying and stuff and is all"Don't be mad" and "I love you".
Hedda is more out there than we thought. So we know that she and Barack are openly crushing on each other and that she and Eilert have done more than crushing.
OMG i <3 how she is so blunt with men. She tells everyone that she may be married but isn't in love then she tells Lovborg that she never loved him either. Awww, poor guy thought he had her wrappped around hius finger.
Random: I pictured Eilert as a tall youthful modelisque blonde guy. Like Aaron Eckhart. Yeah someone attractive but a badboy. I was quite disappointed when I found out that he looked old.
Anyway to the more important comfrontation between Hedda and Lovborg.
She shot at him. ha! I could see him running away. Then enters Thea. Hedda plays them against each other so well. You can tell that she[Hedda]'s really mad at the fact that Eilhert loves Thea or at least is trying to throw that love in her face that she makes it her temporary misssion to destroy their relationship. The way she drives him to drink and go to the party is brilliant. I hope to be that manipulative one day. Makes me so proud.*tear*
Then she goes all Carrie on Thea. She's gonna kill her. lol. Murder...not as funny as previously thought except when its done with a smile and a hug

Triangular Arrangements

Oooh...She a [vular word for promiscuous woman]
lol.
Okay anyway what was that obvious flirting with Barack.
I could imagine him creepishly stoking her leg the whole time they were talking. If Tesman hadn't walked in at the time he did they were totally gonna make-out. Despite the fact that she says she's not gonna be that kind of woman who cheats on her husband, the fact that she was so willing to tell the Judge that she didn't love Tesman shows that she isn't gonna cheat on him but she doesn't want anyone to stop lusting after her.<--- Completely understandable. A bit selfish but she is in this loveless marriage and from the little that we do know about her you can tell that she's never really loved anyone in her life.
I can't be the only one who thinks Hedda's blonde.She just acts in this controlling and ruthless way that I associate with angry blondes.
Anyway back to her flirting. Is George blind? She was all over Barack and there's no way she could turn off her flirty face like that. Flirty faces take time.
LOL the fact that George's boring-ness is so predictable makes him so sad. Its not his fault he's a nerd. He loves research and can't see that his pregnant wife doesn't love him.<---- We've all been in that situation.Or I have at least. Me & my pregnant wives. Anyway...
I like how the judge talks about "something to stirr her"
The fact that she shunns the responsibility if a child is hilarious. She' s so selfish.

Hedda Gabler Act 1(Drama Fest-a-poloza!!!)

OMG!!-Catfight much?
I reallly liked the interaction between Hedda and Ms.Tessman. It was all :
"Chick you stupid"&
"Whatchya gonna do about it then?" &
"Tessman say what?"
lol- Yes that's exactly how it went. To me Ms.Tessman was about to slap a ---you know where I'm going. But she knew that this is horrible little girl is the one her nephew chose and she had to respect his decision.The whole time I could just imagine this elderly woman being so scared and trying no to show it.
For me the fact that Hedda isn't your typical wife made this act worth reading. By the time I was five pages i I kept thinking about Hawthorne's The Birthmark and how extremely P-Oed I'd be if Hedda was one of those chicks. You know the one who is overtly submissive to her doctoor husband despite the fact that he is slowly taking away her individuality. Luckily, Hedda is nothing like that but instead a complete and utter contol freak. Imagine Hedda being Rachel McAdams in Mean Girls. (That was Rachel McAdams right?) The way that she talks to Ms.Tessman, slowly manipulates and gets information out of Thea, and completely OWNS her husband makes her the perfect mean girl to me.
The way Hedda controls and dominates every situation in her life makes you love her while trying to hate her for being so mean to evryone else.It's so obvious that she doesn't love George and that she has a thing for that Lovborg guy. I think he's her Shane Oman. Yup they are/were all over each other at one point. Also isn't it a super cowinkydink that both of their past flames are in the same town and supposedly dating?
Awkward but suspecious. Mostly Awkward

Hedda Gabbler

The book's big and orange- this much I know. I'm gonna guess that someone in it's named Hedda Gabbler.