Friends

“Look, Thea. I’m burning your baby, Thea. Little Curly hair! Your baby...yours and his. The baby. Burning the baby.” (D.C p.88) I struggled to fully understand why she urged Lovborg to kill himself, but in this context I can only speculate that it was to further consolidate the end of the relationship between Miss Elvsted and Lovborg, of which she was so envious. By the end of the play, Hedda has relinquished …

…Julie, she cannot bear the thought of being under the control of others. This is why I speculate that Hedda Gabler could very well have been written by Ibsen in direct reply and contradiction to Strindberg’s Miss Julie. I am sure that Henrik Ibsen would have found a lot to disagree upon when it came to the ideas and philosophies contained within Strindberg’s Miss Julie, not to mention the plays preface. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**