Week 14 Project Action Plan: Social Inequality in Hedda Gabler

The prompt I have chosen to address is:

"How are class differences presented in the work?"  using the play Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen.  

I have chosen to do this project because I am interested in learning more about the classes of the time and also to show the social class inequality in the play.

Some topics I am brainstorming currently are wealth, patriarchy, victorian values, class differences

"Do you remember how she would go out riding with her father? In that long black outfit, with the feather in her hat?" (783)

"But where did she get her manners, flinging her hat around any way she likes here in the drawing room.  People just don't act that way" (789).

"If you just bring yourself to call her Aunt Julie, for my sake Hedda, hm?" (789)

These are quotes that I have found just from Act 1.  I have not yet read Act 2-4 but plan on doing so before next weekend.  I will definitely need more evidence to support my claims.  I am also interested in watching the play from an online video.  

Working (very rough) Thesis- Henrik Ibsen uses Hedda and her interactions with other characters in the play Hedda Gabler, to show 19th century social class inequality.

As I read the rest of the play, i will update this with more quotes and examples from the text.


Citation: Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, Page 781-838