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This 3 page paper compares and contrasts two plays: Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and Medea by Euripides. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Hedda Gabler and Medea
Inc. by K. Von Huben 5/2010 Please Introduction Hedda Gabler and Medea are two of the most compelling women in drama,
as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen takes us into the mind
of a woman who wants to control those around her. She is particularly intrigued by the idea of forcing Eilert L?vborg, a poet who loves her, to commit suicide for
her sake; or rather, for the sake of an idealistic notion of what it means to be artistic. She manipulates her husband, her acquaintances, and her environment in the hope
of making her mark on what is essentially a masculine world. Shes a desperately unhappy woman, and she inflicts that misery on everyone else. The real climax of the play
is the scene in which she burns the manuscript of her husbands book. To understand this, its necessary to look for a moment at Hedda and her husband George. Hedda
is a woman born out of her time. She would have been much more successful today, when powerful women are beginning to make their mark, and strength and ambition are
no longer used as weapons against them. But in her day, she is expected to be the "little woman," to cook and clean and keep house, none of which provides
any sort of challenge to her intellectually or emotionally. She is the daughter of General Gabler, a fact that is mentioned repeatedly, and its not too far a stretch to
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