the end

well overall this was a pretty alright play, it started off pretty dry and dull but it picked up as the it went on, there were a lot of climax points. like lovborgs death and then heddas death and smaller ones like the manuscript burning. i think the play ended in climax mode. hedda kills herself and the people around her see. it seems like it won't end like that, because of thea and tesman saying they're going to redo the manuscript and lovborg dead and hedda left to be with the judge and thea going to stay with aunt julie it seemed like all was good and the loose ends were tied up but then all of a sudden hedda kills herself and the last lines we get are from the judge and tesman. everything goes haywire again, i liked it though i thought it was pretty crazy that it happened that way. she seemed alright then she takes herself out. crazy stuff man.

what really happened to lovborg?

i think the judge shot him. i'm not an expert on suicide but i'm pretty sure if someone is going to shoot themself it wouldn't be in the chest. for one thats a sort of awkward place to shoot if you're trying to kill yourself as quickly as possible and two how would the gun get back into his breast pocket after he had "shot" himself. i'm thinking the judge was just like hey mang, you be tryin' to take my lady away and ruin my triangle relationship but not a relationship just casual encounters thing and i don't like it, so bang. take that. and then he played it off as if he didn't do it and that he's just the innocent bystander who has to sit on the sidelines. i thought the judge was a pretty unsavory fellow throughout the whole play but this pretty much solidified that view of him in my eyes. it just seems weird that he would do that. he wants to be the one cock of the walk but he doesnt want to be tied down to anyone. he's a swinger but he doesn't want his swings to swing also if you get what i mean by that. judge brack is bologna, grade a bologna i say.

yay for babies?

i guess not. hedda didn't seem to be too happy with the fact that she was having a baby. it was never directly said that she was having a baby but from how they talked about it i can assume that she was. for babies to be such miracles hedda sure wasn't happy to have any part of it. she tells them that she isn't filling out and she's the same as always. she didn't want to be a mother even though i'm sure that would have cured her overwhellming boredem. but no, she didn't want that. i think her suicide says a lot about her as a person mainly for the reason that she knew she was pregnant, she knew there was a life inside of her that depended on her and she still took her own life and in turn the life of her unborn child. i'm sure it happens everyday but it still seems so crazy to me that someone could be so selfish. she could've had the child and maybe her life would've been better, maybe not but i doubt a kid would've made it any worse. that pretty much cemented the idea of hedda being a not so good person in my head.

who's really in control?

it certainly isn't hedda. i feel like she tries to control everyone because she has no control over herself. her whole life she seems to have had to listen to people and be under their power being a generals daughter and such probably wansn't a walk in the park and when she got older she saw the powe that her dad had and she wanted the same thing. she wanted to control and to be in control, if that makes sense. like she wanted to control others without herself being controlled by anyone. i think hedda is kind of lost in her life and she doesn't know how to find herself so she tries to control those around her, she controls tesman and thea and lovborg, but the one who has power over her is brack and she knows it and she doesn't like it which ultimatley causes her to kill herself.

oh georgy boy.

this man is so simple, but also so complex. he seems to be oblivious to everything that's going on around him but i doubt he doesn't know anything. he's a very book smart kind of guy but seems a bit lacking in the common sense department. he does know what he wants, though. he wants that proffesor job and when he is excited about the burning of the manuscript we see that for real. he loves hedda and would do pretty much anything she asked him to. but he seems to be only able to handle one thing at a time. like in act one he is worried about getting things for him settled rather than buying hedda stuff and in the act four after lovborgs death he is more worried about helping thea get the manuscript back together and tells hedda he won't have time for her and to go be with the judge, as if that wasn't already happeneing. you catch my drift.

bored? get a hobby

seriously, this woman says she's bored more than a 2 by 4. she needs a dog or a hobby or something because her life is dull. but it's only dull because she makes it so. she could do anything she wanted, she's the hedda gabler but no she just sits at home and plays with her pistols like some kind of crazy woman, shooting at people who come in the garden. she pretty much has the world at her figertips but she chooses not to see it and not to go out and do what she wants to. goes along with the thea and leaving her husband thing, she's being independent and doing what she wants while all hedda can do is sit at home and be mean to old ladies and her husband.

sca-sca-sca-scandalous!

i find it very ironic that hedda says she wants to avoid scandal but she always seems to be the center of it. hedda gets into more trouble in this play than lindsay lohan. first the whole scene with aunt julie and her hat, that was just unneccessaray and then when she told lovborg about it she was saying how she did it just because and didn't have a reason for it. then the whole almost shooting lovborg deal was pretty scandalous and the whole crazy triangle friends with benefits i'll do you but we don't need a relationship let me in your back door deal was pretty scandalous. i just don't know what to think about this woman.