Questions in Past Papers (PU) | Hedda Gabler By

Henrik Ibsen
1. The play Hedda Gabler is the product of a mind deeply preoccupied‫پہلے‬
‫ سے قبضہ کر لینا‬with the nature of power, particularly the power of one mind
to influence and impose itself upon another. Discuss. (2004)

2. The character of Loevborg in Hedda Gabler 1/2 (2004)

3. "The daemon‫ بدروح‬of Hedda is that she wants to influence another human
being, but once that has happened she despises ‫ حق یر جاننا‬him". Do you
agree? Give arguments to support your answer. (2005)

4. Bring out the dramatic significance of the symbols used in Hedda Gabler.
(2006)

5. How far would you agree that the tragedy of Hedda is that she has
nothing serious to do but at the same time she desperately yearns for
happiness without ever being able to find it? (2007)

6. "Hedda's restlessness and envy arise from her false standards of

happiness as well as from her egotism and uselessness". What is your
opinion? (2008)

7. Do you think that "Loveborg's despair arises from the fact that he wants
to control the world but cannot control himself"? (2009)
8. (2010) Discuss some of the dramatic devices Ibsen has used to depict
Hedda Gabler's predicament ‫بری حالت‬

9. Ibsen's play exhibits a conflict in Hedda between the masculine and the
feminine traits which ultimately brings about her destruction. How far do
you agree? (2011)

10. "HEDDA GABLER characters anticipates ‫ پہلے ہی سے بتادینا‬the modern,

emancipated ‫ آزاد‬woman who invariably ‫ ہمیشہ‬places herself in opposition to
the traditional maternal role. Elaborate. (2012)

11. Can Hedda be regarded as the precursor ‫ خبر رس اں‬of the 20th century
emancipated ‫ آزاد‬woman? Give your arguments. (2013)

12. Discuss Ibsen's contribution to the development of modern drama.

(2013)

13. What picture of the social and moral norms of the society that
surrounds Hedda Gabler, can be found in Ibsen's play? (2014)

14. Does Ibsen's play depict the failure of artistic impulse in a world
dominated by socio economic concerns? How do you interpret the death of
Lovcborg in "Hedda Gabler"? (2015)

15. 'Hedda Gabbler presents the socio-psychological conflicts within the

liberated woman'. Elaborate with appropriate textual citations. (2016)
16. Discuss the dramatic significance of Hedda's suicide towards the end of
the play "Hedda Gabler". Is it justified? Elaborate with arguments. (2017)

17. "The demon in Hedda wants to influence one but when it happens she
disposes him." Discuss Hedda's character in the light of this comment.
(2018)

18. The Character of Thea in Hedda Gabler 1/2 (2018)

19. What stance does Ibsen take about sex and marriage in Hedda Gabbler?
(2019)

20. The demon in hedda wants to influence others but when it happens, she

dispossesses ‫دیا‬ ‫ نکال‬it. (2020)

REFERENCE TO CONTEXT :

● You needn't bother. I saw the pistol Loevborg had when they found
him. I recognized it at once. From yesterday. And other occasions.
(2004) ACT 4 SPOKEN BY BRACK
● Yes, but have you noticed how strong and healthy she's looking? And
how has she filled out since we went away? (2005) ACT 1 SPOKEN
BY TESMAN
● (nervously, walking across the room) Sometimes a mood like that hits
me. And I can't stop myself. (Throws herself down in the armchair by
the stove.) Oh, I don't know how to explain it. (2006) ACT 1
 SPOKEN BY HEDDA TO BRACK WHEN HE ASK ABOUT HIS
BEHAVIOUR WITH ANT JUJU
● You can stand there and say that! No further use for me! Surely I can
go on helping you? We'll go on working together, won't we? (2007)
ACT 3 SPOKEN BY MRS.ELVSTED TO LOEVBORG
● Apparently he put up a very violent resistance. Hit one of the
constables on the ear and tore his uniform. He had to accompany
them to the police station. (2008) ACT 3 SPOKEN BY BRACK FOR
LOEVBORG
● Vine leaves? No, I didn't see any of them. He made a long, rambling
oration in honour of the woman who'd inspired him to write this
book. Yes, those were the words he used. (2009) ACT 3 SPOKEN BY
TESMAN
● He was there this afternoon. He went to demand something he said
they had stolen from him. (2010) ACT 4 SPOKEN BY BRACK
● Quite irreproachably, I assure you. In every respect. All the same ---
I'm dreadfully frightened something may happen to him. (2011) ACT
1 SPOKEN BY MRS.ELVSTED
● Do you find it so incredible that a young girl, given the chance in
secret, should want to be allowed a glimpse into a forbidden world of
whose existence she is supported to be ignorant? (2012) ACT 2
SPOKEN BY HEDDA
● He'll be here. I can see him. With a crown if vine leaves in his hair.
Burning and unashamed. (2013) ACT 2 SPOKEN BY HEDDA
● Do you find it so incredible that a young girl, given the chance in
secret, should want to be allowed a glimpse into a forbidden world of
 whose existence she is supposed to be ignorant? (2014) ACT 2
SPOKEN BY HEDDA
● Yes, it's got the odour of death about it. It reminds me of the followers
one has worn at a ball the morning after. (2015) ACT 2 SPOKEN BY
HEDDA TO BRACK
● Lovborg: I've torn my own life to pieces. So I might as well tear up
my life's work as well.
Mrs. Elvsted: And you did that last night!
Lovborg: Yes, I tell you. Into a thousand pieces. And scattered them
out in the fjord. A long way out. At least the water's clean and salt out
there. They'll driftwith the current and the wind. And after a while
they'll sink. Deeper and deeper. Like I will. (2016) ACT 3 SPOKEN
BY MRS.ELVSTED TO LOEVBORG
● Brack: Fortunately, the nuptial journey is at an end ...Hedda: The
journey'll be a long one ... a long one yet, I've just come to a stopping-
place on the line. (2017) ACT 2 SPOKEN BY JUDGE BRACK TO
HEDDA
● You needn't bother; I saw the pistols Loveborg had when they found
him. I recognized it at once. From yesterday and other occasions.
(2018) ACT 4 SPOKEN BY JUDGE BRACK TO HEDDA
● The journey'll be a long one ... a long one yet, I've just come to a
stopping-place on the line. (2019) ACT 2 SPOKEN BY JUDGE
BRACK TO HEDDA
● As i look back upon it all, I think there was really something beautiful,
something fascinating-something daring-in-in that secret intimacy-
that cornradeship which no living creature so much as dreamed of.
(2020) ACT 2 SPOKEN BY HEDDA TO LOEVBORG