Sunday, October 26, 2008

Characters in Hedda Gabler

As promised previously here is yet another blog but this time it pertains to the characters and how they change or morph if you will as the play moves on through the acts.

Ultimately through the play all of the characters change significantly from the beginning of the story to the end. At least all but two. Generally in a play or story a character changes from the readers first impression.

For me, i found Hedda to be much more controlling then i anticipated especially at the end of the first act when she pulled out her pistols and completely caught me off guard with her cold mood.

The two characters that i found to not change from my first impressions what so ever were the two characters that can argueably be living most in the past.
George Tesman and his Aunt. The two began the play and never really changed... George was always innocent and couldn't really grasp reality, and his Aunt was just older and cared for people never really granting her a chance at adjusting herself to things.

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