Sunday, October 26, 2008

Post #6

Does anyone in this book know what love is?? Hedda doesn't love Tesman, in fact, she is completely bored with him after being married, what? Less than a year? And Tesman doesn't even hardly care when Hedda kills herself. Brack certainly doesn't love Hedda, he's just in it for the fun. . . And what about Lovborg and Hedda? She actually persuades him to kill himself! The only couple I thought actually loved each other was Thea and Lovborg, since Thea left her marriage for him- but now I'm not sure about that either. First of all, if Lovborg truly loved Thea, he wouldn't have committed suicide. But then I figured that Thea was truly in love with Lovborg, seeing her concern for him after he went missing. But then, ten seconds later, Thea was busy trying to rewrite her precious manuscript with Tesman. "In Lovborg's honor". Yeah right.

2 comments:

Kristin said...

haha, you're so right. This play is most def not about love. Love may be the surface theme but it's all about the actions the characters perform based on selfish motives. Everyone cared more about themselves than about the one they "loved". maybe Aunt Julie is an exception because she truly cared for tesman and, even though hedda was a b!7(# to her, julie was willing to visit for Tesman's sake. but then again, she was the stereotypical woman in the 1800s: the motherly, giving, and caring type.

J. Braga said...

I do not think the play is mainly about love, but love is not completely absent from the play. I think George loves Hedda although she does not truly love him. And I also think Aunt Juliana is a loving character and she loves her nephew George.