In the stories Hedda Gabler and The Awakening by Henrik Ibsen and Kate Chopin both main characters represent themselves as morally ambiguous characters . Hedda in Hedda Gabler presents herself as a purely evil woman, with no goals in her life but to destroy those that surround her. Whereas Edna in The Awakening identifies herself to the reader as purely good and that the people around her are the evil and corrupt ones. Both characters can be judged as ambiguous characters by their actions and how they evolve in the story.

Hedda wants only one thing in her life which is control. Control of her husband, control of her secret lovers, and most of all control of her life. To gain so much power she feeds off of everyone else’s faults and mistakes. She can deceive you but at the same time you think she is actually helping you. Elvert feels that he is losing his life and his mind and thinks that suicide is the best solution to his problems. Instead of soothing him or talking him out of it Hedda tells him to do it “beautifully”. Not only that but she also give hi

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