BANG BANG PISTOLS TELL ALL

Now for my next blog i will be demonstrating the use of pistols..... in the play Hedda Gabler that is!

In my personal opinion, one of the single most important motif's in this play was the motif of Hedda Gabler's pistols. Pistols lead to power and power leads to corruption and Ibsen’s play Hedda Gabler is a prime example of power gone wrong. When you mix Hedda Gabler with boredom and power the outcome will not be pretty for anyone within a household of this woman. She is very unpredictable and when you add the pistols to her craziness you get chaos ... an example of this in the beginning of Act 2 where Hedda points the gun at the Judge and shoots into the sky. At that point in the story we as readers became a little more unaware of what Hedda was attempting to get at. This is when Brack comes inside and allows himself to take the gun right out of Hedda’s hand, and thus temporarily assuming power in the house. When Brack has the pistol he is in charge and nothing can really stand in his way. this is also yet another unpredictable move by Hedda to at one second pretend to be shooting at the Judge and another second allowing the Judge to take complete control of a situation and send Hedda into submission.