| 1 | * AlternateCharacterInterpretation: |
| 2 | ** Can really apply to most of the characters, depending on how the play is acted or directed |
| 3 | ** Is Jörgen Tesman really as naive and simple as he seems, or is he motivated by jealousy when he [[spoiler: takes Ejlert’s manuscript]] and not concerns for [[spoiler: Ejlert]]’s state at the time, as he claims. |
| 4 | * {{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. |
| 5 | * IAmNotShazam: The title character is (legally) named "Hedda ''Tesman''", not Hedda Gabler. Gabler was her maiden name, and it serves as a symbol of her pre-marriage identity. |
| 6 | * MagnificentBastard: Hedda, who's incredibly beautiful, and manipulates ''every single person in the play'' without them realising, [[spoiler:except for Brack who understands what Hedda's doing straight away, mostly because they are very similar.]] |
| 7 | * MoralEventHorizon: |
| 8 | ** [[spoiler: Hedda deliberately destroys Thea's life by burning her and Lovborg's book and driving the latter to suicide.]] |
| 9 | ** [[spoiler: Judge Brack has one as well, when he tries to blackmail Hedda into what is implied to be a sexual relationship.]] |
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