Q. Is Hedda Gabler an “existential” play? Discuss the pros and cons.
- Impossibility of expression and subjectivity, Kierkegaard
- Boredom & Alienation, via the Underground man
- Desire, Life-energy and Dionysus, Hedda the bird of prey
Alienation as
- Not misunderstanding, but “talking past each other”
- As using one as a means to an end