Monday, October 27, 2008

Adela VS> Hedda

One of my questions to an assesment earlier was: Compare and contrast the roles of Hedda Gabler and Adela.

I thought of a surprising number of similarities between the two characters that i discovered and would like to share.
1. Both of the two young ladies are pregnat or at least become pregnat throughout the course of there respective plays.

2. The two ladies are oppressed by a male dominated society. If we put on our feminist lens we can clearly see that the men still dominate society and hold women back from reaching their full potiental of being whatever they want to be in life.

3. Both Adela and Hedda are going to get or are already married to a man that they do not love... if Adela would have had more options in her life she most likely would have realized that she had much more in common with another man than that of Pepe El Romano who she only claimed to love because he was her way out. And in Hedda's case it isn't hard to see that Hedda doesn't love George and only married him out of convinience.

4. The final major thing that the two have in common is that they both end up commiting suicide.

1 comment:

mayayayaya said...

This is such a good blog Stephen! I really enjoyed how you noted the similarities between the two women. Although these resemblances have crossed my mind I've never fully thought them through and your blog helped me to do this with such a well-organized layout, thank you!