Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen’s play of Hedda Gabler, a general’s daughter just back from her wedding journey with the scholar George Tesman, whose new life is unsettled by the return of a former admirer, Eilert Lovborg.

Start reading4 acts, about 27,000 words

Famous quotes

• I want for once in my life to have power to mould a human destiny.

  Act Second, spoken by HeddaIn context

  • Power

• It gives me a sense of freedom to know that a deed of deliberate courage is still possible in this world,⁠—a deed of spontaneous beauty.

  Act Fourth, spoken by HeddaIn context

  • Beauty
  • Courage
  • Freedom

• Oh, what curse is it that makes everything I touch turn ludicrous and mean?

  Act Fourth, spoken by HeddaIn context

  • Failure

• Good God!⁠—people don’t do such things.

  Act Fourth, spoken by BrackIn context

  • Life & Death

Contents

1. Act First
2. Act Second
3. Act Third
4. Act Fourth