This has some similarities to Madame Bovary in that the title character is a beautiful woman who marries a good natured man that she finds boring and who looks for excitement elsewhere.
However, Hedda Gabler has a cold calculating nature that I don't remember Emma Bovary as having. She is quite capable of deliberately ruining other people's lives purely for her own entertainment. She has a foil in her friend Mrs. Elvsted and also Aunt Julie--women who freely give of themselves to care for others. The two men who are interested in Hedda are Judge Brack, whose coldness and calculation are quite similar to her own, and Eilert Lovborg, an old beau with a generous, romantic nature and a self-destructive streak. The play is about how these differing personalities affect each other's lives.
No comments:
Post a Comment