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Q:    WHAT ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF CHARACTER OF HEDDA? Q:    GIVE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF HEDDA GABLER. Ans: Attempting a psychoanalytic reading of a given text is a bit like attempting to understand a city by examining its sewer system: helpful, yet limited. There are several reasons for using psychoanalysis as a critical literary theory; the critic might be interested in gleaning some sort of subconscious authorial intent, approaching the text as a "cathartic documentation" of the author's psyche; the method might be useful in judging whether characters are well-rendered, whether they are truly three-dimensional and, therefore, worth our while as readers (thus satisfying the pleasure principle); finally, in a larger sense, the psychoanalytic approach can be employed to actually tell us something about our own humanity, by examining the relative continuity (or lack thereof) of basic Freudian theories exemplified in written works over the course of...

Q: DISCUSS THE         ROLE AND CHARACTER OF JUDGE BRACK IN "HEDDA GABLER". Q: TO WHAT EXTANT JUDGE BRACK    IS RESPONSIBLE    FOR     THE TRAGEDY OF HEDDA? Ans: Brack is a judge of relatively inferior rank. He is a friend of both Tesman and Hedda, and he visits their house regularly. He has connections around the city, and is often the first to give Tesman information about alterations in the possibility of his professorship. He seems to enjoy meddling in other people's affairs. He is a worldly and cynical man. On certain occasions he seems to represent the whole society of the time, his opportunism, meanness, blackmailing and lusty love aspiration make him an epitome of society. Brack strikes as a very immoral man from the very beginning, due to the aplenty advances he made towards Hedda. He had always subtlety hinted that he thought that Hedda might like "a new responsibility" and most imp...

Q: DISCUSS THE ROLE AND CHARACTER OF WOMEN IN THE PLAY. Q:   WHAT ARE THE MAJOR SOCIAL ISSUES IN "HEDDA GABLER"? Q:   DISCUSS "HEDDA GABLER" AS A SOCIAL PARABLE. Q: "HEDDA GABLER" EXPOSES THE SHAMS AND         HYPOCRISY OF VICTORIAN AGE. ELABORATE. Q:   HEDDA         FACES THE TRAGEDY BECAUSE OF HER CONCEIT IN SOCIAL CLASS. DO YOU AGREE? Ans: It has been suggested that Hedda Gabler is a drama about the individual psyche -- a mere character study. It has even been written that Hedda Gabler "presents no social theme". On the contrary, we find social issues and themes abundant in this work. The character of Hedda Gabler centres on society and social issues. Her high social rank is indicated from the beginning, as Miss Tesman says of Hedda, "General Gabler's daughter. What a life she had in the general's day!" Upon Hedda's first appearance, she makes many snobbish remarks. Firs...

Q: HEDDA   ENJOYS BOTH MASCULINE AND FEMININE TRAITS IN HER BEING, WHICH MAKE HER ENTIRE PERSONALITY CONFUSING AND ENIGMATIC. HOW CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE VIEW? Q: HEDDA   GABLER IS UNIQUE AND REBELLIOUS, WHY DOSE SHE BEHAVE SO CONFUSINGLY? Q:    IN "HEDDA GABLER" WE HAVE REVERSAL OF GENDER ROLE, WHAT PURPOSE IT SERVES IN THE PLOT OF THE PLAY? Q: DESCRIBE THE CLASH     OF      VICTORIAN     MORALITIES     IN HEDDA GABLER. Q:   WHY HEDDA IS LUSTY FOR POWER? Q:   GIVE A CRITIQUE OF CHARACTER OF HEDDA GABLER. Ans: Henrik Ibsen portrays a microcosm of nineteenth century Norwegian society in his play Hedda Gabler. Hedda, the protagonist, exhibits a mixture of masculine and feminine traits due to her unique upbringing under General Gabler and the social mores imposed upon her. However, although this society venerates General Gabler because of his military status, his daugh...