Sunday, October 5, 2008
Love is out of the question
while we were going through act one during class, i noticed a line that caught my eye and, in my opinion, really shows how hedda feels about her marriage to tesman. already in act one, you can kinda feel that hedda is pretty cold and obviously does not share the same enthusiasm about tesman as he does about hedda. the quote on page 246-247 "it was part of our bargain that we'd live in society-that we'd keep a great house-" further shows that hedda does not love tesman. First off, hedda says "bargain" when she is actually speaking about her marriage to tesman. she treats her marriage like it was a deal, a trade-off; tesman gets her as a wife as long as hedda gets to keep her lifestyle as before; a good house and staying high in society. later on page 147, when hedda finds that she cannot have many things that she wanted to have, such as a butler or a riding horse, she becomes very cold towards tesman "her eyes cold" because she does not need to pretend to like him anymore, because he can't give her what she wants. She also speaks and looks at him with scorn, further showing how not only does she not like him, but she doesn't respect him either, and believes herself to be above him.
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I think your absolutly right with this one because she was definately in it for all the wrong reasons ... Do you think it has to do with how she was raised?... and how being single handedly raised by her father is a steep contrast to being single handedly raised by an aunt.
Good Job :)
You bring up a very good point Rose...I think Hedda doesn't love Tesman-she is so rude to him and his family (aunt)...I think she married him for the wealth and what she thought she could get, but maybe also because it would be someone to control. Since her father had all the control over her, she is seeking someone to control cuz she doesn't even have control of herself. Tesman is a laid back kind of guy, and Hedda can easily control him, which may be why she married him also...
ah, i so agree with your blog. and i think that as soon as she realized that she lost her "control" over tesman (somewhere in act 3) she became more desperate and a little psychotic (she was burning the manuscript and calling it a child and was not affected by that at all...o_O). you can also tell by the increase in exclamations when she's talking to brack(in act four) that she is not happy with her current situation.
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