Okay I think I get it!!!

What if the play isn't about Heda at all? I think that the play is all about Lovborg. So I think Lovborg is individuality within this corrupt society and that Thea represents youth... you know like children and how the innocent are attracted to individuality; how the pureness of childhood makes the individual stronger against all other societual vices (drinking in Lovborg's case).
So the play is simply the story of society crushing individuality and scorning individuality and the possible realization by the individual that fitting in to society means absolutely nothing.
In saying this I think that Hedda does represent society but that her death is symbolic of society realizing that it can't change or escape its cyclical process entrapment and oppression and upon this revealing that the only way we can change society is to kill it (okay...keep following it gets good)
which means we have to totally destroy society<---- which means destroying classes and the class system and living in a classless society to ensure the happiness of society

BAM!!!Man I'm good. It makes sense don't question it.Everything is pro Marxist and I just proved it.

Character Analaysis

So I chose to do the men in the play and...No one in this play is flat. Except maybe Berta but I think she might have some role in the whole schme of things too. Umph. So far I have George as a round and dynamic character pretty much because venthough it's not obvious he isn't as oblivious as he leads people to believe. He has a little bit of evil in him yet. IDK what quote best illustrates his roundness though.
Brack I put as a round dynamic also b/c he comes up from just a fling into so much more.
Lovborg I'm stuck on. Can he be dynamic if he's un-progressing[there is a better word but I don't know it;regression?] I mean he starts off good and with all thes facades of "I care about you Hedda"
"I care about what society thinks of be but yet I'm having an affair" and "I'm so over drinking". WTF this should be easier. I think I just made it a lot easier but I still feel as though<---(The Ms.Thomas voice in my head keeps me from saying "like")I'm lacking information. My essay seems dry and choppy.
Ugh!!

Female sterotypes live

I don't know if I mean sterotype or the archatypical young wife. She is like Hope(Young Goodman Brown's wife) and the wife of the birthmark lady. She is a victim of her naivity. She acts all tough and stuff but in the end she ends up under someone's thumb and unloved. She had George and she completely ignored him and treated him like crap and I think he finally realized that and threw her unto Judge Brack. He[George] realized that she was CRAZY beyond all reason. She was a bit too into Lovborg's sucide for his liking and so he turned his love unto the woman who had the more acceptable response to the news.(It is kinda jerky that he just dissed her like that but she was not a good wife/person when around him)
The thing that I don't like about this ending is that Brack comes from out of nowhere and just dominates. He shuts everything down. This man tries to blackmail her into loving him. I guess this should be expect that just when she feels comfortable enough with Tesman to actually call hum by his first name which signifies her increased affection ofr him, that all her wrong doings in the past would blow up in her face.
Overall I think Hedda is a strong woman but was naive in thinking that she could controll everyone and not get played eventually. She underestimated him. Brack is like Stalin.

Everything I touch turns ridiculous and vile!

Hedda is so selfish. She pretty much helped a man commit suicide and all she can think about is herself. Its sorta sick that she in controlling another human being felt that the thing that was absolutely necessary and emminent was death. She purposely created stressful and tragic situations for Lovborg so that he would feel helpless such as losing his most prised posession(she could've given him the manuscript at the exact moment she saw him despite the accusations), the woman he loved,and essentially his future. It's one thing to create the conditions but it's another to start the fire.Ohh, maybe that's what the stove and fire are symbolic of- action. She when setting Lovborg up with the gun goes to the fireplace and burns the manuscript-adding to the fire of his dispair,setting his actions into motion. Then when she hears about Lovborg's death she is sitting by the stove.She comments on how impressed she is at such a wonderful act which suggests that she is impressed and that this information feuled her fire and that she feels more willing to ACT now.<---- I feel so smart.
I think suicide was something that Hedda had/was contemplating long before Lovborg and Thea ever walked through her door. It is obvious she felt no control over her life and felt trapped in this loveless marriage and this dangerous love Triangle.
I think that the guns not only symbolize her power but her preoccupation with death. She is constantly "playing" with these guns. Maybe she was planning her suicide the whole time.

People don't do such things

Um... Act 4 was kind of a disappointment. I mean WTF Lovborg?
The man had so much going for him:
an awesome manuscript that could be replecated
an awesome girl who was totally in love with him
<3
and he had just regained control over his life.
This play is utterly depressing. I am usually a crtique of the new-age happy-ending and everyone wins type literature but this play makes me love that kind of sappy writing. In the end evil[Hedda] won. Good[Lovborg] committed suicide and love[Thea] and simplicity[George] were left trying to put the pieces together.
Seriously I refuse to believe that Lovborg killed himself. If he was so over Hedda and no longer under her spell her giving him a gun would not have affected him that much. If someone gives you a gun that doesn't mean you have to kill your self.
I do find it sweet however that he was so pained by losing the connection that he and Thea had that he went back to find it.
But why did he have to die? He was the only decent male character in this play. The only man not concerned with power,greed, or devored by Hedda(until the end that is).
In retrospect I see now that Loovborg was a foil to all the other charcters in his independence and ~morality. Its not morality really as much as he had control over his own actions for the longest.
In comparison to George he is more refined, educated and scholarly because he looks at the world and evaluates it and extrapolates from the information that he acquires while Geoge's head is always in a book and he knows little about the world and spends all his time in the past instead of relishing the present and planning for the future.
Lovborg and Brack are also complete opposites because where as the Judge is concerned with power and status, Lovborg is concerned with himself and doing what he feel sis best for him like publishing a manuscript that is his true self while having the courage to take any critisim of him and his work that would arise.The Judge is so scared of outside forces especially Lovborg upsetting his routine that he becomes savage and brutish when trying to preserve his way of life.