Hedda Gabler R3

Question 1

Topic

Answer 1

identity of the upper class

->tied to ability to conform to status quo and thus also stuck in a class system
despite ostensibly holding power over it

Question 2

Elab

Answer 2

“Conflict Theory”
“social order is maintained by domination and power, rather than by consensus and conformity”-Adam Hayes

Question 3

Quote Int+ explanation

Answer 3

Motif of pistols, “[Standing by the open glass door loading a pistol.]”
->aggressive and overpowering
ironic since oppressed within her marriage

association of firearms to men it gives Hedda false sense of patriarchal power compared to the more subtle coercive power

Question 4

Quote Int+ explanation

Answer 4

“I’m going to shoot you, sir!”
ostensible power disullisioned to exert over Brack

Symbolise depression caused by her failure (despite arisotocratic lineage fails to exert totality and control over other to fulfill self interests)