Tuesday, October 14, 2008
somethin 2 ponder
so, something i realized when i was doing the annalysis for the paper that we got in class: the inner room is a soft, comfortable place where people interact as people and even friends where as the drawing room is cold, hard and rather formal. when Brack is having brandy with George, it's in the inner room; when Hedda is having dinner with Thea, it's in the inner room; when Thea and George are working at remaking Thea's "child" it's in the inner room. the drawing room is where more formal and harsh scenes happen: when Brack takes Hedda's gun (power) it's in the drawing room; when Brack tells Hedda about Lovborg, it's in the drawing room; when Hedda is mean to Aunt Julie, it's in the drawing room. i'm kinda thinkin that Ibsen did this on purpose because the situations never seem to change until the very end when Hedda kills herself in the inner room, and from a theatre perspective, it's just easier to have someone kill themselves off stage where you can just have a gun shot or something. Definately something to think about, i think that that's a pretty interesting motif.
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In a way I agree but not really. All the examples you've given are good but I see them as proof of the poser-ish nature of the inner room. When in the inner room characters are always pretending whether it's Hedda pretending to care about Thea, George trying to absolve himself from being responsible for Lovborg's death by trying to keep his legacy going, or Brack acting as though he is not trying to take away Gorge's wife/power.
I feel that the drawing room is the place where characters are truthful and act like their true selves.
*It's like the glass door in the inner room makes them aware of the fact that society is watching and as soon as they cannot be seen by society in the drawing room they show their true colors.
tru, i like the poser thing. u just like the glass door thing. but you totally read the wrong blog, i wanted u to read the blog from yesterday, the 13th.
yeah, i suppose most of that is true, but
idk.....hrmm *skeptical...*
anywhoos i have noticed that those are basically the only rooms they talk about..it's kinda weird when you think about it though.
i mean, don't they have a bathroom? bedrooms? LOL. just saying.
The thing that is also important to notice about the rooms is that the colors are all dark. Which is first described in the first Act. I totally see the truth versus lie idea except that in many cases the curtains are closed so that society* cannot look in. It is interesting to notice the use of the stage.. for example the inner room would actually be farther away from the audience and I wonder if Ibsen wanted to have some affect on the audience when he put particular scenes in the inner room? As if we must pay extra attention to them because we are isolated from them, or because its not as important??
i don't know about farther from the audience in a spatial sense so much as a visual sense because the inner room doens't necessarly have to b further up stage so much as mroe secluded from the drawing room.
Ok so apparently my little brother really likes the title of this blog because he has spent the past two minutes annoyingly repeating "something to ponder." This will be the last time I let him look at blogs. But had been trying to figure out the significance of the inner room because I noticed that throughout the play, Ibsen developed the inner room into a motif. Well after pondering, I agree that some of the most intimate, personal parts of the play take place in the inner room. In the inner room, Ibsen lets us into the minds of the characters.
lol, i love that ur brother is that into titles!!! he should be a book critic!
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