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Краткое содержание: Hedda Gabler
- Чтение: 8 мин.
- 8 parts
- Аудио скоро
Hedda Tesman, bored in her new villa, loads her dead father's pistols and starts to play with other lives.
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Hedda Gabler — кратко о книге
Краткое содержание: 8 min на чтение
- Время чтения
- Около 1 h 45 min1 h 25 min fast, 2 h 5 min slow
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- Слов: 25 000
- Страницы
- Страниц: 85128 in large print
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- Средний longer sentences, everyday words
- Первая публикация
- 1890by Henrik Ibsen
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Hedda Gabler in short
Hedda Gabler tells of a woman who marries for security and finds herself bored, scornful and afraid. In one house she meets her husband's kindness, an old friend's courage, a rival's brilliance and a family friend's patient scheming. Each asks something of her, and she gives back cruelty, charm or a loaded gun.
What Hedda Gabler is about
What happens when a clever, proud woman finds she has married into a life she cannot stand? Hedda Gabler opens on a bright morning in a freshly furnished villa, with bouquets around the room and a husband humming as he carries an empty suitcase. By the end of the first act, the new bride is talking about her dead father's pistols as a way to pass the time.
It is set in Christiania, now Oslo, in one drawing room. Hedda, a general's daughter, has just come home from her honeymoon with George Tesman, a gentle scholar.
Для кого. You will love this if you enjoy sharp psychological drama, unsettling heroines, and domestic settings that hold great tension, one room and one day at a time.
The story in 8 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A new bride enters a house she dislikes
The play opens on a September morning in the villa of George Tesman. His aunt, Miss Juliana Tesman, arrives early with a bouquet and whispers with the old servant Berta, because the newlyweds still sleep after a wedding trip of nearly six months.
Tesman comes in, round faced and cheerful. A foreign university has just made him a doctor, and he expects to become a professor. His aunt adores him. She has even taken a mortgage on her own small annuity so that he can furnish the house. Tesman accepts this with little more than thanks.
Then Hedda enters, pale, with steel gray eyes and a cold calm. She greets the aunt politely, and within minutes she wounds her. She points to a bonnet on a chair and says the servant has left her old hat lying about. It is the aunt's brand new bonnet, bought to please Hedda.
When the aunt leaves, Hedda clenches her fists like a person in a cage. Tesman sees only what he wishes to see, and Hedda watches with a scorn she cannot speak openly.
Hedda's first cruelty shows a woman already trapped in her own marriage.
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An old schoolmate brings news of Eilert Lovborg
Soon a second visitor arrives, Mrs. Thea Elvsted.
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Judge Brack brings danger and Hedda names her boredom
Judge Brack enters next.
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The man from her past walks into the room
In the second act, Eilert Lovborg arrives at the Tesmans' house.
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Hedda makes Lovborg break his promise
Mrs. Elvsted comes in at dusk, and the three sit together.
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A night of waiting and a morning of reckoning
The third act begins at dawn.
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Power, courage and scandal drive every choice
Beneath the quarrels, a few ideas keep returning.
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One room, small objects and shifting forms of address
Ibsen tells the story with great economy.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Hedda Tesman General Gabler's proud daughter, newly married and bored, she wants beauty and power over a life and cannot say so openly.
- George Tesman A gentle, devoted scholar who expects a professorship and sees only the good in everyone, especially his wife.
- Thea Elvsted A timid but brave young wife who leaves her husband to be near Eilert Lovborg, whom she inspires and helps.
- Eilert Lovborg A gifted writer once ruined by drink, now trying to rebuild his name with a new book and a daring manuscript.
- Judge Brack A smooth family friend who arranges the Tesmans' money and wants a quiet, private hold on the household.
- Miss Juliana Tesman George's loving aunt, who has devoted her care to raising him and mortgages her annuity to help furnish his new home.
How it ends (spoiler)
Hedda burns Lovborg's manuscript in the stove, then tells Tesman she did it for his sake. Lovborg dies from a shot fired in Mademoiselle Diana's rooms, with Hedda's pistol. Brack knows whose it is and uses that to hold her in his power. Rather than become his slave, Hedda goes into the back room and shoots herself in the temple while Tesman and Thea sort the notes.
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Вопросы о книге Hedda Gabler
What is Hedda Gabler about?
It follows Hedda, a general's daughter who returns from her honeymoon with a scholar husband and feels trapped. When an old friend and rival reappears, she tries to steer lives and tests the limits of her own courage.
Who is Hedda Gabler?
She is the proud, intelligent daughter of General Gabler, now married to George Tesman. Gabler is her maiden name, which Lovborg repeats in their private conversation, and she insists he learn not to use it again.
What do the pistols mean in Hedda Gabler?
They belonged to her father, the general, so they stand for his world of pride, courage and danger. Hedda handles them as a toy at first, and they grow into the play's central symbol of power.
When was Hedda Gabler written and is it a true story?
Ibsen published it in 1890. It is a work of fiction set in Christiania, now Oslo, though it draws on the manners, money worries and social pressures of its time.
Is Hedda Gabler easy to follow?
Yes, in its clear shape. It has four acts in one drawing room, a small cast, brisk dialogue and stage directions that tell you who enters and how they feel, so each scene is easy to picture.
Как сослаться на это издание
Ibsen, Henrik. Hedda Gabler. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/hedda-gabler.
Ibsen, H. (2026). Hedda Gabler. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/hedda-gabler (Original work published 1890)
Ibsen, Henrik. Hedda Gabler. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/hedda-gabler.
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