- In the third act Hedda questions Mrs. Elvsted. But if he's like that, why is he worth holding on to.—Yes, yes, I know—…
- NB!! The reversal in the play occurs during the big scene between Hedda and E.L. He: What a wretched business it is to conform to the existing morals. It would be ideal if a man of the present could live the life of the future. What a miserable business it is to fight over a professorship!
Hedda—that lovely girl! H.: No! E.L.: Yes, I'm going to say it. That lovely, cold girl—cold as marble.
I'm not dissipated fundamentally. But the life of reality isn't livable—…
- Life becomes for Hedda a ridiculous affair that isn't "worth seeing through to the end."
- The happiest mission in life is to place the people of today in the conditions of the future.
L.: Never put a child in this world, H.!
- When Brack speaks of a "triangular affair," Hedda thinks about what is going to happen and refers ambiguously to it. Brack doesn't understand.
- Brack cannot bear to be in a house where there are small children. "Children shouldn't be allowed to exist until they are fourteen or fifteen. That is, girls. What about boys? Shouldn't be allowed to exist at all—or else they should be raised outside the house."
- H, admits that children have always been a horror to her too.
- Hedda is strongly but imprecisely opposed to the idea that one should love "the family." The aunts mean nothing to her.
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