Finish

My reaction: it was pretty good :)
The ending of the play had a lasting effect on me, but so did Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba." Ending a play in death shows its significance, or has a big imapct on the viewer/reader. I think what really made "Hedda Gabler" a good play was the characterization of Hedda, she was pretty cool. The way she would just whip out a gun and point it at someone was crazy, that and the scene in which she burns the manuscript, that was eerie. What I hated was how Lovborg could just up and lose his manuscript like that, it seems like such a simple task to keep it close to oneself. In comparison, I really liked how simple and straightforward Lorca was in HoBA, but at the same time how intricate Ibsen's character Hedda was. Good read.