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Tragic Personality of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

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mean to herself, if not more so, than she is to any one else. The personality of this main character is revealed through the dialogue of the play. BBgabler.doc  HENRIK IBSEN: Hedda Gabler (1890) Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., December,  2000 Thesis statement Although Hedda Gabler is considered one of the arch villains of theater, yet when she decides that she would rather live with her personal illusions that  examine her current reality, she destroys that which was the beauty of her dreams; she is the cruelest to herself. Introduction Tragedies in theater allow us to look  at ourselves differently as we experience the visual tragedy of someone on the stage in front of us. In Ibsens play Hedda Gabler, there is supposedly no one  meaner than Hedda herself; the saddest part of this tragedy is that she is as mean to herself, if not more so, than she is to any one else. Henrik  Ibsen Hedda Gabler was first performed in English in London on April 20, 1891. In the notes that are in the prologue  of this play, we find Ibsens comments for what he called his "modern-day tragedy," He says, "There are two kinds of moral law, two kinds of conscience, one in  man and a completely different one in woman. They do not understand each other; but in matters of practical living the woman is judged by mans law, as if she  were not a woman but a man ... A woman cannot be herself in contemporary society; it is an exclusively male society with laws drafted by men and with counsel