Non verbal and verbal elements in Hedda Gabler

In the play Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen portrays the psychological build up of tension that results in violence as a result of society’s repression of an individual in regards to both class and gender expectations. He does this through the characterisation of the protagonist Hedda Gabler who is a daughter of a decorated general who has brought her up without any apparent influence of a female figure and because of this we see that Hedda takes on a masculine role to try and achieve her goal of gaining power which in her society men are much more dominate. Hedda is restricted by class and gender such as when she disposes of flowers which she sees as feminine this shows that she doesn’t want to be related to anything feminine, throughout the play and because of this we see rising violence which is portrayed in both verbal and non verbal elements. It is these elements that help us to understand why she does what she does and that Hedda Gabler could be a tragic heroine instead of an evil conniving woman which is the general misconception, which we later see t

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