In the play Hedda Gabler by Hendrick Ibsen these are a few parallels between Hedda (who is the protagonist in the play) unborn child and Lovborg (who is Heddas’s old fling) manuscript. In the play Lovborg loses his manuscript and Tesman (Hedda’s husbands) finds it. Thea who helped Lovborg write the manuscript is so devastated. Here, we see a contrast in the way that Hedda feels about having a child, and the way that Thea feels about her book, which she considers her and Eilert’s “child”. Hedda is trying to hide her pregnancy from everyone, hoping that if she doesn’t acknowledge the baby, it will go away. Hedda is terrified of being a mother, because she has never been taught how a mother should take care of a child, since she was raised by