- It liberated Hedda's spirit to serve as a confessor to E.L. Her sympathy has secretly been on his side—But it became ugly when the public found out everything. Then she backed out.
- Main Points: (1) They are not all made to be mothers. (2) They are passionate but they are afraid of scandal. (3) They perceive that the times are full of missions worth devoting one's life to, but they cannot discover them.
- And besides Tesman is not exactly a professional, but he is a specialist. The Middle Ages are dead—
- T.: Now there you see also the great advantages to my studies. I can lose manuscripts and rewrite them—no inspiration needed—
- Hedda is completely taken up by the child that is to come, but when it is born she dreads what is to follow—
- Hedda must say somewhere in the play that she did not like to get out of her compartment while on the trip. Why not? I don't like to show my legs.…Ah, Mrs. H., but they do indeed show themselves. Nevertheless, I don't.
- Shot herself! Shot herself!
Brack (collapsing in the easy chair): But great God—people don't do such things!
- NB!! Eilert Løvborg believes that a comradeship must be formed between man and woman out of which the truly spiritual human being can arise. Whatever else the two of them do is of no concern. This is what the people around him do not understand. To them he is dissolute. Inwardly he is not.
- If a man can have several male friends, why can't he have several lady friends?
- It is precisely the sensual feelings that are aroused while in the company of his female "friends" or "comrades" that seek release in his excesses.
- Now I'm going. Don't you have some little remembrance to give me—? You have flowers—and so many other things—(The story of the pistol from before)—But you won't use it anyhow—
- In the fourth act when Hedda finds out that he has shot himself, she is jubilant.…He had courage.
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