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Home Hedda Gabler: Top Ten Quotes

Hedda Gabler: Top Ten Quotes

Top Ten Quotes
Brack: Fortunately, the nuptial journey is at an end
Hedda: The journeyll be a long one a long one yet, Ive just come to a stopping-place on the line.
Act Two (p. 203)
Hedda seizes on Bracks mention of a literal journeythe honeymoon from which she and Tesman have just returned
and transforms into a metaphor to express her dissatisfaction with what she views as the tedium that her life has
become. Her present situation she views only as a temporary state of affairs. Ironically, however, the only stopping-
place at which Hedda will arrive his her own death.
Hedda: My impulsiveness had its consequences, my dear Mr. Brack.
Brack: Unfortunately impulsiveness does that only too frequently, my lady.
Act Two (p. 207)
This exchange exemplifies one of Ibsens central themes in Hedda Gabler: namely, that consequences must be faced
and resolved satisfactorily in order for live to be lived. Refusing to do so in her own life, Hedda naturally, by Ibsens
dramatic logic, fails to live; and her death is the natural consequence of that failure.
Hedda: Oh courage oh yes! If only one had that Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
Act Two (p. 221)
Hedda expresses her desire to see courage within others and herself, a recurring motif in the drama. Ironically, of
course, her suicide at the plays end shows the ultimate failure to live and act courageously (which would entail
confronting and coping with the consequences of ones actionssee the previous quotation).
Mrs. Elvsted: Youve got some reason for all this, Hedda!
Hedda: Yes, I have. For once in my life I want to feel that I control a human destiny.
Mrs. Elvsted: But surely you do already?
Hedda: I dont, and I never have done.
Act Two (p. 226)
Concomitant with Heddas professed desire for courage is her stated desire for control, not only of her own fate but
also the fates of those around her. Ibsen may be suggesting that the desire to grasp and wield such control is actually a
mask for failure to recognize ones own vulnerability and subjection to social forces.
Lvborg: Ive torn my own life to pieces. So I might as well tear up my lifes work as well.
Mrs. Elvsted: And you did that last night!
Lvborg: Yes, I tell you. Into a thousand pieces. And scattered them out in the fjord. A long way out. At least the
waters clean and salt out there. Theyll drift with the current and the wind. And after a while theyll sink. Deeper and
deeper. Like I will, Thea.
Mrs. Elvsted: I want you to know, Lvborg, what youve done to the book For the rest of my life itll be for me as
though youd killed a little child.
Act Three (p. 243)
This exchange establishes Lvborgs manuscript as a concrete symbol of the future, a future that, through Heddas
rash action, Mrs. Elvsted and Lvborg will now never realize. It adds further moral weight to Heddas actions, for
what she has done is now, in the plays logic, equivalent to murder. This, too, is a consequence Hedda refuses to face.
Its a liberation [for me] to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has
something of unconditional beauty.
Hedda, Act Four (p. 258)
This statement is Heddas evaluation of Lvborgs actions when Hedda is led to believe that Lvborg has shot himself.
It shows the audience Heddas fundamental misidentification of impulsive destructiveness (as in her own suicide,
shortly to transpire) with courage and control.
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
Hedda, Act Four (p. 259)
These words form one of Heddas truer statements in the course of the play. Hedda, however, never explores the
reasons that this dynamic should be so in her life. The context of the play as a whole suggests that it is due to her
refusal to grapple with the consequences of her actions, her refusal to grow and become more than General Gablers
daughter.
Hedda: Id sooner die!
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