Critical Analysis of Hedda Gabler Demented individuals seeking inconceivable sovereignty often gain control through their virulent techniques of deceit. The manifestation of irrationality within Hedda’s bizarre temperament conveys itself through her unreasonable aspirations of dominance within her limited status. The encouragement Hedda derives from her pistols enable her to incorporate strange characteristics within her personality, collectively presenting her defiance to modern social expectations. Hedda persistently sustains a satisfied perspective of her family’s accomplishments. Her personal unconsciousness consists of her thoughts, memories, and impulses of her father’s accomplishments along with her goals to accomplish more within …show more content…
Hedda’s ownership of the pistols enables her to cross boundaries outside the role of a traditional woman within her routine social expectations. These factors display Hedda’s ego, which represents her daily activities and desires consisting of her usage of her guns, along with her quest to seek out information from others. Hedda’s strange behavior also affects her collective unconscious, which consists of reactions that occur due to natural human instincts. This applies to Hedda in the sense of finding a greater purpose for her life.The bland consistency of societal obligations within traditional nineteenth-century European expectations, consider pistols dangerous objects, unfit for operation by inferior women. Being succumb to boredom, Hedda often claims that at least “[S]he shall have one thing at least to kill time with.”(Ibsen 23). Hedda, however, breaks out of the rational social expectations and carries the male-orchestrated devices, enabling her to move on beyond her personal restraints, thus granting her more