Hedda Gabler and Les Belles Soeurs

Both Hedda Gabler and Les Belles Soeurs present portraits of women who are recognizable "types" in the scheme of bourgeois culture. Although the social position of Hedda, daughter of General Gabler, is at the aristocratic end of the bourgeois social spectrum and that of Germaine, one among many working-class women in what is presumably Montreal, what the characters share is a situation of socially sanctioned confinement and a profound level of discontent with their living situation. Hedda's education and background position her as socially gifted and self-possessed, increasingly self-aware, and emotionally sterile individual whose desperation and insight grow over the course of the play. Germaine lacks Hedda's education and social sophistication, which may have contributed to a narrow emotional range that moves chiefly from anger to anger but that also entails social envy of the kind induced by borderline poverty and the pious certainties of received wisdom, which betray contempt and fear of anything that smacks of social unconventionality.

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Some common words found in the essay are:
Belles Soeurs, Miss Tesman, Hedda's Lovborg's, Germaine Hedda, Hedda Elvsted, Eilert Lovborg's, Hedda Germaine, Tesman Thea, Complicating Hedda, Brack Lovborg, belles soeurs, les belles, les belles soeurs, hedda gabler, miss tesman, received wisdom, hedda's education, family friends,
Approximate Word count = 1124
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)