- When Hedda hints at her ideas to Brack, he says: Yes, yes, that's extraordinarily amusing—Ha ha ha! He does not understand that she is quite serious.
- Hedda is right in this: There is no love on Tesman's part. Not on the aunt's part. However full of love she may be.
Eilert Løvborg has a double nature. It is a fiction that one loves only one person. He loves two—or many—alternately (to put it frivolously). But how can he explain his position? Mrs. Elvsted, who forces him to behave correctly runs away from her husband. Hedda, who drives him beyond all limits, draws back at the thought of a scandal.
- Neither her nor Mrs. Elvsted understands the point. Tesman reads in the manuscript that was left behind about "the two ideals." Mrs. Elvsted can't explain to him what E.L. meant. Then comes the burlesque note: Both T. and Mrs. E. are going to devote their future lives to interpreting the mystery.
Mrs. Elvsted thinks so too.
Hedda sees their delusion but dares not disabuse them of it. There is something beautiful about having an aim in life. Even if it is a delusion—
She cannot do it. Take part in someone else's.
That is when she shoots herself.
The destroyed manuscript is entitled "The Philosophy Ethics of Future Society."
- Tesman is on the verge of losing his head. All this work meaningless. New thoughts! New visions! A whole new world! Then the two of them sit there, trying to find the meaning in it. Can't make any sense of it.…
- The greatest misery in this world is that so many have nothing to do but pursue happiness without being able to find it.…
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