For my act of resistance, I made sure not to wear a coat on my weekend. By doing this I hope to show myself and others how noticeable people who lack clothing, which we find essential, are. With my idea in mind I made sure to attend different activities, and at these events, I also made sure there were many people present.
Personally, I felt that my appearance would make others look, and think "what a crazy fellow" I also had a feeling that I would be asked about the absents of clothing, as it was "very cold out"
In many instances I was asked by complete strangers wasn't I cold? My reply was yes, then would precede to explain my reasons.
If I were to do it again I think I would let people know that they could ask me about my dressing and not feel rude.
Did my act help the the lack of clothes in needy people? No, I did nothing myself to increase the number of clothes people own. However, I think that my act did help. I can imagine people wondering: why is he doing that? and when they found the reason I'm sure that it gave them thought, and maybe told someone which raised awarness, and thought about the issue. How could I know? A person who saw me walking in the cold weather may just have dontated to a local shelter or other organizations for the needy.

Absence brings about peace, I think from Reading Lys. that this theme is s total lie. Throughout Lys. and because of the women and men the idea of absence seems like a bad one. The men and women both nearly destroy themselves and other with this idea. I wonder if this book could be applied to other institutional beliefs?

The power of a women was rally represented well in Lys. However it was not what I expected, to find that women are better, but that both sexes represents abilities that the other do not. I suppose this makes sense when people tell each other "you complete me"

The Aprocilties of men, I'm not really all to sure of what it is. It seems to represent men/ women, and speak for them. I'm not sure but I believe that it is a play unique thing?

The costumes in Lys. would I think be really cool to see. The different clothes that these people wore, and the armor the used would be a cool sight. I would really like to the difference between the women/ men costumes (even though the men played women at the time the play was first published)

The Puns in Lys. are really clever and funny. I can't think of any right now, but when it seems the women/men speak of each other they use really clever puns.

The stage I thought had an elements that to the reader was important, nut because it is a play, was important to the stage. Lys. seems to have a small focus on costumes, sets and to an extent special effects. This to me was different then other plays I read, that seemed to have much more description.

Since their are so many themes in Lys. I'm not sure what to focus on. One thing I have found, is that must "popular" themes fall under one catorgy, which I found was war. I think Lys. keeps a very imporant point on war, and that war is caused beacuse of perosonal intrest. This was truly seen in Lys. as all themes, sex, power... are caused for intrest.

Characterization with plot is quickly seen in Lys. One character, who is Lys. is characterized throughout the play, with special attention to the beginning of the play. She expresses much about herself, which she shares with her women. Since their are not many characters the play Lys. each character is characterized (in my opinion largely)

After reading Lys. for the second time I found it very easy to follow. I liked how the plot moves at a quich rate, I guess it must be my personal reactino tho the book, but It seemed as that how quickly the play moves must be due to the fact it is either a play, or the writing style.

The pistols what a great motif! I thought form the beginning that the pistols were a great way to show power. I mean, if someone to pull a pistol on me, they would have pretty much power over me! and what the mess! whats the deal with Hedda giving her power to Barack! ok that was a awful part! That is such a bad part! why would she do that all a sudden! NO, she shouldn't' t have, it just doesn't make sense.

The end to me,and how Lovborg dies or how he is going to was a bit confusing and odd!
Some lady shot him, Ibsen really didn't explain that, or maybe I missed it. And why was judge making some story up, or rather stretching the truth about how Lovborg came about shot. Maybe if somebody made a Hedda Gabler movie, then I could watch it and it would make sense.

Why does Hedda kill herself, well in thinking about this I don;t think (if I were to lay medical professional) it could be narrowed down to 1 or 2 reasons. I think that from the beginning she not only trapped herself, but didn't want to help herself in her problems. Her suicide wasn't really a great shock to me.

In response to my last post, I believe that Hedda and Mrs. Elvsted can both represent the past and future of women characters. The both seem to process stereotypical women character features, physically weak, emotional, but they are also shown with masculine traits- (name) physically strong.

I really liked our discussion, a while ago in class, where we talked about the characters Hedda and Mrs. Elvsted. It was a pretty interesting where we discussed the 2 characters in terms of if they were the future image of women or the past.

The use of Chiarusco is really used in Hedda Gabler. It is seen epically through the curtains. The Curtains seem to always be either pulled back, or closed. I wonder if the use is suppose to show something or just part of the plays instruction to build the set.

Judge

Judge Barack strikes me as a odd character. He seems to hang around the Gabler residents alot.
He to me is also really a different thinker for this time frame, as he doesn't ant to marry but wants a close circle of friends. His sexual discussions with Hedda were not really what I think of when I think 19th century.

George Tessman (character)

George is a rather strange character. I imagine him as kind of a awkward person. His boy like look and his interest in odd things stood out to me. Particularly the scene in which he receives his slippers from his aunt was strange. He seems to hold such enthusiasm, while his wife dismisses him.

Hedda

I wonder what Heda's deal is. She seems to care little about her new husband.
Also her husband is really lame, besides ending sentences with uh? or imagine that!
he should be able to pick up on the fact that Hedda does not love him. I think if he was
a true intellect (as he is said to be) he should know this about his wife.

Set up blogging thing, pretty sweet.