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work_3cjvwqbf5vbevld7r4wrppdjhm	Toril Moi	Hedda's Silences: Beauty and Despair inHedda Gabler	2013	24	.pdf	application/pdf	10766	953	77	I shall bring out the connections between Hedda's yearning for beauty, her silence (her refusal or withholding of expression), and her despair. [In fact,] throughout the last two acts of the play, Hedda behaves like a producer and director desperately trying to stage a sublime idealist tragedy entitled 'Løvborg's Death'" (Henrik Ibsen 316). Critics have always connected the vine leaves Hedda wants to see in Ejlert Løvborg's hair to an ideal of beauty (see, e.g., Høst 110). the second (her refusal to lie to Judge Brack): for, as I shall show, Brack's sexual blackmail gives new meaning to the moment of non-response that happened in her past, and also makes Hedda decide to embrace that past scene, Hedda theatricalizes Thea and Løvborg by withholding her acknowledgement of their humanity, by which I here mean their capacity to have KEYWORDS: literature and philosophy, reading, Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, Kierkegaard,	./cache/work_3cjvwqbf5vbevld7r4wrppdjhm.pdf	./txt/work_3cjvwqbf5vbevld7r4wrppdjhm.txt