Suicide

This kinda connects with my last blog on the general. Basically, Hedda wants to control other's lives, and she tries to do this throughout the play. However, she realizes she can't (as Brack, namely, and Thea have control over those she wants to control), so she turns to suicide. Once again, because she is still obsessed with the concept of controlling others, she does not go for her own suicide. Instead she convinces Lovborg to commit his own. This way she still felt responsible for controlling his action, and not being involved in scandel (as it was earlier; in their younger days, Hedda was going to shoot Lovborg but didn't because she was afraid of scandel). When she first heard that Lovborg was dead, she was thrilled, because she had finally succeeded in controlling another's life. So, when she found that someone else had killed him, someone else had done what she was afraid of doing, someone else had took control of his life, she was devistated. This disappointment was futher made worse when Brack discovered what happened, and gained full control over her. So with this, she lost all the power and control she had, making her turn to suicide, as her death was the last thing that she had control over.