hedda gabler sparknotes

Dear me, is she indeed? Can such a thing not be reproduced? Oh, very well. He promises to return at ten o’clock that night.Mrs. But I asked if you had enjoyed yourself. Then is there something behind all this? [Laying down the letter.] Now I am burning your child, Thea!—Burning it, curly-locks! Good-bye, Mrs. Tesman.

[Rises and says wearily, repelling the idea.]

I couldn't, Hedda!—not to save my life. Ask Judge Brack to come in. I am beginning to think so. No—for you can imagine what a state of despair he will be in when he wakens and misses the manuscript.

Hedda, the beautiful daughter of General Gabler, has recently married Jörgen Tesman, an academic who is facing financial hardships in attempting to satisfy his wife’s grand and aristocratic ways. Yes. Oh, Hedda, you can't conceive what a book that is going to be!

Do you know, Lovborg, that what you have done with the book—I shall think of it to my dying day as though you had killed a little child.

[To TESMAN.]

At such a critical moment— Yes, I must really rush— Good-bye! To assuage her husband’s outrage, she insists she did it out of love for him, so that he wouldn’t be outshone by a better mind.

No, as you may see. This?

But now comes the strange part of it, Hedda; or, I should rather say, the melancholy part of it.

Written over again?

I see nothing but darkness before me. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does.Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on LitCharts.The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of He has no copy of it, you must know! Lӧvborg exits. I suppose you mean that he has more courage than the rest? Do you know where he and one or two of the others finished the night, Mrs. Hedda?

Of course I don't know what else may have happened last night. Tesman hurries to her at once, leaving Lӧvborg’s manuscript in Hedda’s care.Just as Tesman leaves, Judge Brack enters. To make a long story short—he landed at last in Mademoiselle Diana's rooms. I will be with you when the book appears. Give it to me!

Struggling with distance learning? Promise me that! Good-bye, Hedda Gabler. [She goes out by the hall door. And then, as I hurried after them—what do you think I found by the wayside? He also has a sad story to tell: Lӧvborg got debauchedly drunk, and while he was being walked home, he lost his precious, irreplaceable manuscript. I have not torn it to pieces—nor thrown it into the fiord. Oh, not at all! But all the same— And then, you see, Tesman hasn't cared to come home and ring us up in the middle of the night.

Come come now, Judge Brack! In short, he seems to have made a furious disturbance. The parcel, Tesman! [Smiling.] The lamp, half turned down, and with a shade over it, is burning on the table. For the inspiration, you see— Yes, yes—I suppose it depends on that—[Lightly.] Ah yes—the book! Up at the Elvsteds', yes. The two have just returned from their long honeymoon when the play begins—a journey during which Jörgen toiled away in archives and libraries, mostly. A Streetcar Named Desire Brave New World Death of a Salesman The Crucible Twelfth Night. And he had gone and lost it, and knew nothing about it.

However, I should scarcely have troubled so much about that. Eilert Lovborg—listen to me.—Will you not try to—to do it beautifully? I loathe all sorts of ugliness. Hedda Gabler (SparkNotes Literature Guide), SparkNotes, SparkNotes. [Her smile vanishing.] Indeed? From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes, the SparkNotes Hedda Gabler Study Guide has everything you need to ace quizzes, tests, and essays. It also allows her to feel little guilt when "cheating on" him, if only on an emotional level, with Ejlert and Judge Brack.

Well then—I have torn the manuscript into a thousand pieces. Well, to tell the truth, I think it might best be described as an orgie, Hedda. [Sits erect upon the sofa, stretches herself, and rubs her eyes.] [Laughing.] However, I didn't notice anything.—I suppose Tesman is not up yet. No, no. I assure you I have not had my clothes off, Mrs. Hedda.

man, George!—And that you should be the one to carry off Hedda Gabler —the beautiful Hedda Gabler! I am burning—I am burning your child. And as for Eilert Lovborg—he is sitting, with vine-leaves in his hair, reading his manuscript. But he went after all, then? Bless me—I'll make up the fire at once.

On the way to town.

[He lays the packet on the other footstool, opens the letter, runs his eye through it, and jumps up.] Then let me tell you that what I said just now was untrue. And that is why I have a right to be with you when it appears! How can you stand there and say that!

Hedda, the famous daughter of General Gabler, married George Tesman out of desperation, but she found life with him to be dull and tedious. [Nodding to him.] That was a ring at the front door, ma'am. Well well—we might have spared ourselves the trouble.