Characters
- Hedda Gabler, the wife of Jørgen Tesman
- Jørgen Tesman, the husband of Hedda; an academic
- Miss Juliane Tesman, aunt of Jørgen
- Mrs. Thea Elvsted, friend of Jørgen, school rival of Hedda, confidant of Ejlert
- Judge Brack, friend of the Tesmans
- Ejlert Løvborg, Jørgen's academic rival whom Hedda previously loved
- Berte, servant to the Tesmans and to Jørgen as a child
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“Of all the characters I have known, perhaps Walden wears best, and best preserves its purity. Many men have been likened to it, but few deserve that honor. Though the woodchoppers have laid bare first this shore and then that, and the Irish have built their sties by it, and the railroad has infringed on its border, and the ice-men have skimmed it once, it is itself unchanged, the same water which my youthful eyes fell on; all the change is in me.”
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Still vague from accidents,
And characters in long coats
Deep in the litter-baskets
All dodging the toad work
By being stupid or weak.”
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