History YMMV / HeddaGabler

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Can really apply to most of the characters, depending on how the play is acted or directed

* Bowdlerise: Perhaps unintentional, but when Judge Brack is telling Hedda the truth about how Ejlert's suicide happened, he informs her that he did not shoot himself in the head, or even intentionally as Hedda had imagined, and instead the gun went off on accident and struck him in the lower stomach. In the original Norwegian, the exact word that Ibsen uses is “underlivet” which when literally translated means “below the waist”. Although it can be read with some ambiguity, if someone said in English that a character was shot [[TheBodyPartsThatMustNotBeNamed "below the belt"]], the mind would imagine a [[GroinAttack very different]] last image of Mr. Lovborg.

* Bowdlerise: Perhaps unintentional, but when Judge Brack is telling Hedda the truth about how Ejlert's suicide happened, he informs her that he did not shoot himself in the head, or even intentionally as Hedda had imagined, and instead the gun went off on accident and struck him in the lower stomach. In the original Norwegian, the exact word that Ibsen uses is “underlivet” which when literally translated means “below the waist”. Although it can be read with some ambiguity, if someone in said in English that a character was shot [[TheBodyPartsThatMustNotBeNamed "below the belt"]], the mind would imagine a [[GroinAttack very different]] last image of Mr. Lovborg.

* Bowdlerise/Theatre: Perhaps unintentional, but when Judge Brack is telling Hedda the truth about how Ejlert's suicide happened, he informs her that he did not shoot himself in the head, or even intentionally as Hedda had imagined, and instead the gun went off on accident and struck him in the lower stomach. In the original Norwegian, the exact word that Ibsen uses is “underlivet” which when literally translated means “below the waist”. Although it can be read with some ambiguity, if someone in said in English that a character was shot [[TheBodyPartsThatMustNotBeNamed "below the belt"]], the mind would imagine a [[GroinAttack very different]] last image of Mr. Lovborg.

* Main/Bowdlerise: Perhaps unintentional, but when Judge Brack is telling Hedda the truth about how Ejlert's suicide happened, he informs her that he did not shoot himself in the head, or even intentionally as Hedda had imagined, and instead the gun went off on accident and struck him in the lower stomach. In the original Norwegian, the exact word that Ibsen uses is “underlivet” which when literally translated means “below the waist”. Although it can be read with some ambiguity, if someone in said in English that a character was shot [[TheBodyPartsThatMustNotBeNamed "below the belt"]], the mind would imagine a [[GroinAttack very different]] last image of Mr. Lovborg.

* [[Bowdlerise Bowdlerise]]: Perhaps unintentional, but when Judge Brack is telling Hedda the truth about how Ejlert's suicide happened, he informs her that he did not shoot himself in the head, or even intentionally as Hedda had imagined, and instead the gun went off on accident and struck him in the lower stomach. In the original Norwegian, the exact word that Ibsen uses is “underlivet” which when literally translated means “below the waist”. Although it can be read with some ambiguity, if someone in said in English that a character was shot [[TheBodyPartsThatMustNotBeNamed "below the belt"]], the mind would imagine a [[GroinAttack very different]] last image of Mr. Lovborg.

* Bowdlerise: Perhaps unintentional, but when Judge Brack is telling Hedda the truth about how Ejlert's suicide happened, he informs her that he did not shoot himself in the head, or even intentionally as Hedda had imagined, and instead the gun went off on accident and struck him in the lower stomach. In the original Norwegian, the exact word that Ibsen uses is “underlivet” which when literally translated means “below the waist”. Although it can be read with some ambiguity, if someone in said in English that a character was shot "below the belt", the mind would imagine a [[GroinAttack very different]] last image of Mr. Lovborg.

* Bowdlerize: Perhaps unintentional, but when Judge Brack is telling Hedda the truth about how Ejlert's suicide happened, he informs her that he did not shoot himself in the head, or even intentionally as Hedda had imagined, and instead the gun went off on accident and struck him in the lower stomach. In the original Norwegian, the exact word that Ibsen uses is “underlivet” which when literally translated means “below the waist”. Although it can be read with some ambiguity, if someone in said in English that a character was shot "below the belt", the mind would imagine a [[GroinAttack very different]] last image of Mr. Lovborg.

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Hedda deliberately destroys Thea's life by burning her and Lovborg's book and driving the latter to suicide.]]
[[spoiler: Judge Brack has one as well, when he tries to blackmail Hedda into what is implied to be a sexual relationship.]]

* WhatAnIdiot: Tesman; At the end of the play, instead of helping his wife who's [[spoiler:just shot herself]] or going to check on her, he simply stands in one spot and wails.

* MoralEventHorizon: Hedda deliberately destroys Thea's life by burning her and Lovborg's book and driving the latter to suicide.

* MoralEventHorizon: Hedda loses much of the reader's sympathy after she pretends to love Tesman. It only gets worse after that.

* MoralEventHorizon: Hedda loses much of the reader's sympathy after she pretends to love Tesman.

* MoralEventHorizon: Hedda loses much of the reader's sympathy after she pretends to love Tesman. It's also fairly hard to feel sympathy for her [[spoiler: suicide because she's just ''killed her baby'']].

** Actually may not have read like this to the audience of the time- [[spoiler: foetal rights was not really a debate that was going on, in the modern sense. Pregnant suicides were surprisingly common and usually ''were'' sympathetic in fiction (though admittedly Hedda is hardly typical of the case. See Theatre/AnInspectorCalls for how this was treated at the time]]

** Actually may not have read like this to the audience of the time- [[spoiler: foetal rights was not really a debate that was going on, in the modern sense. Pregnant suicides were surprisingly common and usually ''were'' sympathetic in fiction (though admittedly Hedda is hardly typical of the case. See AnInspectorCalls for how this was treated at the time]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Hedda loses much of the reader's sympathy after she pretends to love Tesman. It's also fairly hard to feel sympathy for her [[[spoiler: suicide because she's just ''killed her baby'']].
* WhatAnIdiot: Tesman; At the end of the play, instead of helping his wife who's [[spoiler:just shot herself]] or going to check on her, he simply stands in one spot and wails.

* MoralEventHorizon: Hedda loses much of the reader's sympathy after she pretends to love Tesman. It's also fairly hard to feel sympathy for her suicide because she's just ''killed her baby''.