Meanwhile, Tesman returns home.
Eh? Once he leaves, Hedda takes his manuscript out from her bookshelf and feeds it into the That evening, Aunt Julle comes to the Tesmans’ villa to inform Hedda of Aunt Rina’s death. On the way to town. Menu. No—don't give it to him! And I have lost the child—utterly lost it. Tesman hurries to her at once, leaving Lӧvborg’s manuscript in Hedda’s care.Just as Tesman leaves, Judge Brack enters.
A letter! Are you on the move, too? [Despairingly.]
Then she sinks back again wearily, moaning to herself.] Of course he has gone to his Aunts' and slept there. She’s heard that Lӧvborg has had some kind of accident. Good-bye, Hedda Gabler. [Looking about her.]
All in the house are horrified: “People don’t do such things,” exclaims Judge Brack. But tell me now, Judge—what is your real reason for tracking out Eilert Lovborg's movements so carefully? [Laying down the letter.] Well well, Mrs. Hedda—perhaps you are right there.
It was Miss Tesman's servant that brought it. Elvsted passes a sleepless night at the Tesmans’ villa, while Hedda sleeps quite well. Oh, we're here—!
Yes, the manuscript—? [Changing her tone.] [Seating herself by the table on the right.] Yes, when I saw that a certain person had come back to town—and that he went off with them. Ah, Lovborg! Oh yes,—for once in a way. Do you hear! I will remain here! Thanks!
Of Eilert Lovborg among the rest, perhaps? Hamlet Heart of Darkness King Lear The Catcher in the Rye The Scarlet Letter. So why should I not tear my life-work too—? [He goes out by the hall door.
Fancy, dear—I found this. And I never doubted you were still sound asleep! [Puts the pistol in his breast pocket.]
Then go to the door.
That sounds almost like a threat.
No Fear Shakespeare; But he had declined the invitation; for now, as you know, he has become a new man. SparkNotes is brought to you by Barnes & Noble.
[She goes softly out by the hall door. [In the doorway, laughing to her.]
Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select.Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Well, I fancy that altered his purpose; for we menfolk are unfortunately not always so firm in our principles as we ought to be. But as to Lovborg—?
Lord bless you, ma'am—I guessed how it would be. I am shivering. I have heard about that coffee-party already. I must make a confession to you, Hedda. [After a pause, suddenly sits up in her chair, and listens eagerly. So you want to be the one cock in the basket [Nods slowly and lowers his voice.]
Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select.Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. How could you, then—! Tell me then— [Sitting on a footstool near the stove.] Hedda implies, however, that she would never engage in an extramarital affair. I want to say that now our ways must part. [Closes the door of the stove and rises.]
Tesman confesses to being jealous of Lӧvborg’s manuscript.
No, no, I will keep it till you come back.
There there there! The two at last sit in the drawing room, and Hedda tells Brack about the hat incident—she says that she knew all along that the hat she mocked belonged to Aunt Julle and not to Berte. But now comes the strange part of it, Hedda; or, I should rather say, the melancholy part of it.
You must go home again— [In vehement protest.] They're like having in-class notes for every discussion!”
Yes, so it would appear.
This? [Laughing.]
Eilert Lovborg—listen to me.—Will you not try to—to do it beautifully?
During their wedding trip, her husband spent most of his time in libraries doing research in history for a book that is soon to be published. Well, Mr Lovborg, this is rather a late hour to call for Thea.
Hedda is disgusted to consider the fact that seemingly everything she touches becomes petty and farcical. MISS TESMAN. man, George!—And that you should be the one to carry off Hedda Gabler —the beautiful Hedda Gabler! The curtains are drawn over the middle doorway, and also over the glass door.
And moreover a mighty huntress—of men—Mrs. Dear me, is she indeed?
A summary of Part X (Section9) in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Well, but you husband is certain to come soon now; and then I want to know at once— I shall take care to let you know when he comes. Hedda, the daughter of the great General Gabler and the pregnant wife of Jörgen Tesman, is a beautiful, aristocratic, intelligent woman, loaded with social grace and a steely, clear, dispassionate charisma.She is 29 years old when the action of the play begins. No, no don't ask me. It is a sort of child-murder. And I am exceedingly glad to think—that you have no sort of hold over me. I see nothing but darkness before me. However, I didn't notice anything.—I suppose Tesman is not up yet. Only for a minute or two—fancy that! [Stands waiting for a moment.] [Looks at her.]
The parcel, Tesman! Yes, I fancy I have several good friends about town who would like to stand in my shoes—eh? I'll lay it here on the table.
[In agonised foreboding.]
So deplorably— But why did you not give him back the parcel at once?
Yes, you are right. It is fitting that the title of the play is Hedda's maiden name, This aristocratic privileging of "aesthetic" matters causes Hedda to feel very unsympathetic to Tesman. I will not let myself be driven away like this! [Throws the rest in.]
I suppose you mean that he has more courage than the rest? Indeed! Hedda, the beautiful daughter of General Gabler, has recently married Jörgen Tesman, an academic who is facing financial hardships in attempting to satisfy his wife’s grand and aristocratic ways. Not in such a hurry, I mean.
[At the writing-table.]
The devil knows into what hands it may have fallen—who may have had their clutches on it." Even Mrs. Elvsted feels intimidated by Hedda.