Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, creates three major triangulations between characters. These relationships are developed throughout the play and it is the breakdown in the relationships with Hedda that lead to the dramatic closure of the play. Hedda initiates one of the triangulations in an attempt to “have power over a human being’s fate”. Judge Brack creates the second an unsuccessful parallel to Hedda’s own power advancing creation. Jorgan Tesman and Thea Elvested …

…Hedda, also destroys the link between herself and Jorgan the only person who could/would have saved her. In the destruction of her baby she destroys her future, people will remember Ejlert because of his ‘child’ but there is nothing left to remember Hedda by. The dramatic closure is caused by the destruction of Hedda’s power base in the form of triangular relationships; this destruction is caused by her own manipulation of the triangles.