HEDDA GABLER

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler

Introduction

Hedda Gabler is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1980. The play revolves around the character of Hedda Gabler. Hedda Gabler is a tragedy, and as a whole, it falls into the type two major categories of tragedy genre of English literature. Hedda Gabler itself was written at the time when fundamental change was occurring within Norwegian society. Hedda Gabler represented this new emerging woman mentality (Wisdom, 2004).

Analysis

Hedda Gabler, the aristocratic daughter of Captain Gabler, is 29 and just marries a man she does not love. The work shows how a marriage back ...