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Hedda Gabler's personality type is of a different character than Nora Helmer's. She expresses herself wickedly, for her own enjoyment; not caring of other peoples feelings. Hedda has feelings of confinement and frustration, with her life, and directs her bottled up energy at people with an ill temperament. "Life becomes for Hedda a ridiculous affair that isn't worth seeing to the end. Life isn't tragic…life is ridiculous…and that's what I can't bear" (Henrik …

…decade later he created Hedda in a society that had not changed much in regards to the attitudes of women. In the play of Hedda Gabler, he insinuates an idea of what drastic measures one might go though, to feel worthy of life. Ibsen tries to tell his audience that one has to be self-satisfied to be unselfish with others. Nora and Hedda both an excellent representation of this, thus transmitting his message to all.