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Jörgen Tesman
Tesman’s rival for a prestigious professorship, Ejlert Lövborg is a visionary historian and sociologist. He is also, like Hedda herself, ill-adapted to modern life—in his case, he is unable to drink in moderation. The despairing thing about Lövborg, as Ibsen has noted, is that he wants to control the world by seeing into its future, but he can’t even control himself. During their adolescence, Lövborg and Hedda were intimate confidants and comrades, but Hedda violently broke the relationship off when it threatened to become sexual. When Lövborg comes back into her life during the action of the play, Lövborg’s relationship with Mrs. Elvsted, his helpmate and muse, so inflames Hedda’s jealousy that she at last sets about effecting Lövborg’s destruction.
Ejlert Lövborg Quotes in Hedda Gabler
The Hedda Gabler quotes below are all either spoken by Ejlert Lövborg or refer to Ejlert Lövborg. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 3
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Hedda: And what are you going to do, then?
Lövborg: Nothing. Just put an end to it all. The sooner the better.
Hedda: Ejlert Lövborg…listen to me…. Couldn’t you let it happen… beautifully?
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Now I’m burning your child, Thea! With your curly hair! Your child and Ejlert Lövborg’s. I’m burning…burning your child.
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Act 4
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Hedda: He was shot in the breast?
Brack: Yes…as I said.
Hedda: Not in the temple?
Brack: In the breast, Mrs. Tesman.
Hedda: Well…the breast is good, too.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Ejlert Lövborg Quotes in Hedda Gabler
The Hedda Gabler quotes below are all either spoken by Ejlert Lövborg or refer to Ejlert Lövborg. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 3
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Hedda: And what are you going to do, then?
Lövborg: Nothing. Just put an end to it all. The sooner the better.
Hedda: Ejlert Lövborg…listen to me…. Couldn’t you let it happen… beautifully?
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Now I’m burning your child, Thea! With your curly hair! Your child and Ejlert Lövborg’s. I’m burning…burning your child.
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Act 4
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Hedda: He was shot in the breast?
Brack: Yes…as I said.
Hedda: Not in the temple?
Brack: In the breast, Mrs. Tesman.
Hedda: Well…the breast is good, too.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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