Quotations+-+Hedda+Gabler

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** Quotations - Hedda Gabler ** MRS. ELVSTED. Oh, how dreadfully afraid of you I was then! … You used to always pull my hair, and once you said you would burn it off my head. HEDDA. But what do you think people will say of you, Thea? MRS. ELVSTED. They may say what they like, for aught // I //care. MRS. ELVSTED. I gained a sort of influence over him. HEDDA. Oh, yes, but there is. There is a great deal more – I can see that. Sit here – and we’ll have a cosy, confidential chat. // (She forces Mrs. Elvsted to sit in the easy-chair, and seats herself on one of the footstools.) // Hedda. I want for once in my life to have power to mould human destiny. Hedda: So you want to be the only cock in the basket? Brack: Yes, that is my aim [to be the only cock in the basket]. And for that I will fight with every weapon I can command. Hedda: I am glad to think – that you have no sort of hold over me. Lovborg: I want to say that now our ways must part. You can be of no more service to me, Thea. Hedda: Eilert Lovborg, will you not try to do it beautifully? Lovborg: Beautifully? With vine leaves in my hair… Goodbye Mrs Tesman Hedda: No wait! I must give you a memento to take with you, take it, and do you use it now. Beautifully, promise me that! Lovborg: Goodbye Hedda Gabler. // Hedda:  // Oh, what a sense of freedom it gives on, this act of Eilert Lovbrog’s. // Brack:  // Well, fortunately, there is no danger, so long as I say nothing.
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 * Act I **
 * Act II 37-45 **
 * Act III **
 * Act IV **

TESMAN. Have you noticed what splendid condition she is in? How she has filled out on the journey? HEDDA. I am exactly as I was when I started. HEDDA. I shall have one thing at least to kill time with in the meanwhile…// (in the middle doorway, looks at him with covert scorn) //My pistols, George. // (with cold eyes) //General Gabler’s pistols. BRACK: Not even – the specialist one happens to love? HEDDA: Faugh – don’t use that sickening word! TESMAN. Think of Hedda, my dear fellow! You, who know her so well -. I couldn’t possibly ask her to put up with a shabby style of living! MISS TESMAN. Collecting and arranging – no one can beat you at that. HEDDA: And George Tesman – after all, you must admit that he is correctness itself. ** Act II 37-45  ** Hedda: Because I have such a dread of scandal. Hedda: I will not look upon sickness and death. I loathe all sorts of ugliness. MRS. ELVSTED. I don’t know how long it will last…A woman’s shadow stands between Eilert Lövborg and me…Someone he has never been able wholly to forget. ** Act II 37-45  ** Hedda. Oh, if you could only understand how poor I am. And fate has made you so rich! Lovborg: Give me your word that what I now confide to you Thea shall never know. I have not torn it to pieces. I have destroyed it nonetheless. Thea said what I did seemed to her like a child murder. Lovborg: I have torn it to a thousand pieces. I have torn my own life to pieces, so why should I not tear my life work, too. Mrs. E: I shall think of it to my dying day as though you had killed a child. // Brack:  // Good god! – people don’t do such things. // Tesman:  // I must certainly tell Aunt Julia. And then that you have begun to call me George too! Fancy that! Oh, Aunt Julia will be so happy – so happy! // Hedda:  // When she hears that I have burn Eilert Lovborg’s manuscript – for your sake? // Tesman:  // No, by-the-bye – that affair of the manuscript – of course no body must know about that. But that you love me so much! // Hedda:  // I have burnt it – every line of it. Hedda: Eilert Lovborg, will you not try to do it beautifully? Lovborg: Beautifully? With vine leaves in my hair… Goodbye Mrs Tesman Hedda: No wait! I must give you a memento to take with you, take it, and do you use it now. Beautifully, promise me that! Lovborg: Goodbye Hedda Gabler. MRS. ELVSTED // (eagerly) //. Comrades! Yes, fancy, Hedda – that is the very word he used!
 * __ Women and Femininity __ **
 * Act I **
 * Act II (first half) **
 * __ Wealth __ **
 * Act I **
 * __ Respect and Reputation __ **
 * Act I **
 * Act II (first half) **
 * __ Appearances __ **
 * Act III **
 * __ Dreams, Hopes and Plans __ **
 * Act I **
 * Act III **
 * Act IV **
 * __ Drugs and Alcohol __ **
 * Act III **
 * __ Random __ **
 * Act I **