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HEDDA GABLER AND ANTIGONE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - “preserve the proper ordering of things, and not, whatever happens, be subjected to a woman,’ [Page 39].
  - - - "Prove what you are: a true sister or a traitor to your family” - Antigone
      - “We were born as women and not made to fight with men” “we are subject to their stronger power” - Ismene [Page 16].
      - AUDIENCE INTERPRETATION
        
        An Athenian audience may have had difficulty choosing between performing burial rites and enforcing societal norms, as both are highly practiced ideals.
- - - - "Yet hope of payment has so often dragged men down" (Pg. 22) - Creon
    - - Judge Brack solving the case at the end of the novel is foreshadowed when he first touches the pistol in Act 2 and says "Ah, it's this one - I know it well!" (Pg. 321)
      - The burning of the manuscript when Hedda was talking to Brack about humiliating Auntie Tesman regarding her Hat: "Well you know- these things come over me every so often" - "Oh I don't know how to explain it" --> Admits she is irrational!!
- - - - Hedda realises that Judge Brack has power over her, and that she is at risk of permanently tarnishing her public reputation, and so, using the remaining pistol, shoots herself in the temple, a method she heavily romanticised when discussing Lovborgs Death
        
        "Oh, Judge! There's such a release in this affair with Eilert Lovborg!" (Pg. 371)
        
        "A release in knowing that there can be acts of courage born of free will in this world after all. Something imbued with a glow of impulsive beauty." (Pg. 371)
        
        "I am saying there is beauty in this" (Pg. 370)
        
        "So not through the temple?" (Pg. 369)
      - Antigone accepts her fate to die and does not deny death unlike many at the time would, especially considering she has been publicly shamed!
        
        "I am being taken and can stay no longer. Look upon this - Theban elders - me the last of this royal bloodline; see what kind of man has made me suffer, for standing upright" (Pg. 49)
    - - RebelliousnessHedda and Antigone are rebellious in respective ways depending on what is accepted by society, the viewers' ideals at the time, and the law that governed the people
  - - - Haemon
      - Lovborg died because he knew that his
- - - - While confronting Creon, Antigone claims that other Thebans see all that is wrong with Creon’s order, but that they “gag their mouths in front of [him],” [Page 32] out of fear.
      - The position of Ismene in relation to Creon’s domestic law is opposite to that of her sisters. Ismene asserts that because she is “overruled by force” she “shall obey those in command” [Page 16].
      - Whilst conversing with his son, Haemon, Creon asks: “is the city not considered as its ruler’s realm?” [Page 41]. This moment directly exposes Creon’s mentality as the King of Thebes, which is that he believes his orders cannot be challenged and are final, even if they contradict the orders of the Gods themselves.
      - Sophocles rationalizes, through Antigone, why divine law overrules all else. Antigone highlights how as a mortal, Creon’s edicts are “not strong enough to override the statutes of the gods” which are “unwritten and unshakeable” [Page 30].
- - - - "Now I am going to shoot you Judge Brack!" (Pg. 320)
        "That's what comes of taking the back way!" (Pg. 320)
    - - "That maid, Tesman - It's clear we'll never get on with her!"
        "She's left her old Hat on the chair!" (Pg 301)
        "It's the first time I've worn it actually!"
      - “So Hedda won’t be ashamed of me if we’re out in the street together!” (Pg. 295)
    - - A symbol of the social freedom men have access to that women in the patriarchal system that Ibsen has created do not. Men like Tesman and Brack are able to sometimes escape polite social conventions, however, the women like Thea and Hedda are unable to do this, as seen when Brack’s bachelor party took place. Moreover - not consuming alcohol for a man can also be seen as a symbol of weakness, as seen when Hedda challenged Lovborg’s masculinity following his refusal to drink. Her thoughts of Lovborg with “vine leaves in his hair” allude to the Greek God of wine, Dionysus, and represent her beliefs that Lovborg can become a master of himself, and that he is filled with courage and bravery. She is forced to alter this belief and come to terms with the fact that he is just an alcoholic. After realizing this, she hopes that he can at least die with some form of courage and free will.