Hedda Gabler's Obsession with Happinness
Finding happiness can be a struggle in many people's lives. Happiness comes from one allowing his/her self to deal with emotional stress and to accept the life that he/she has. In the story of "Hedda Gabler," Henrik Ibsen's shows how people's sadness can be the cause of a woman's happiness. Hedda Gabler struggles in this story to find happiness by making the people around her miserable. Hedda's upbringing in a rich household is the cause of her sadness and it results in the actions she commits towards others. Her longing to be loved ruins the lives of everyone around her. Hedda's yearning for attention causes her to make Mrs. Elvsted miserable, to ruin Eilert Loevberg's dream, and to kill herself because of the loneliness she feels inside of her.
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