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APEEK INSIDE HEDDA’S LITTLE SOCIETY In the time Henrick Ibsen wrote Hedda Gabler Realism, Naturalism, and Symbolism were alive in arts and literature. He brought these out in the play by showing an individual’s conflict with society and its pressures that contradict ones desires. In Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler we meet a woman who has let society, social class, and social power take over and ruin her sanity and therefore life. The four acts of the play let us try to unravel the reasoning of a woman who has become consumed by social order and fear of any exposure of herself. How it develops… Hedda grew up as the General’s daughter and was always looked at as aristocracy. There is no mention of Hedda’s mother all we see is a stern picture of a general and his guns. This could give reason to believe that Hedda’s bold and militant father contributed to her cold, unusual view of life and hatred for the “sickly, stupid word” love. Hedda sees love and beauty in different ways than most. She resects boldness, control and power and these are traits in which she tries to enforce onto others. She does not, however, see beauty in marriage, love children, or nature. She sees it in courage to engage against society