ENGL 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Grape Leaves
15 Jan 2018
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George often ended is sentences in a way that made it seem like a question, a certain hesitation that makes him seem insecure, it makes him cartoonish (he has recurring behaviors or catch phrases that him like a character). A clear theme in modern drama is - no body has a clear or objective point of view. Hedda yearns for a beautiful and perfect life filled with perfect events, like how she wanted eilert to have a perfect and beautiful suicide. "vine leaves" - hedda often talks about viewing lovborg with vine leaves in his hair. It refers alcohol, to the greek god of wine and theatre, a divinely inspired ecstasy. She wants alcohol consumption to represent human freedom, she believed it would be an expression of. Lovborg"s will and his strength as a person because she believed he wouldn"t lose himself when he drinks.
