Hedda Gabler Characters

Hedda Gabler is not a nice person. She taunts a recovering alcoholic about his masculinity and goads him into drinking again. She takes advantage of her husband’s dying aunt to steal an irrep...

Eilert is all about being caught in between. He’s in between Hedda and Thea, aristocracy and life as an outcast, scholarly fame and shameful disrepute, drinking and not drinking, courage and...

Right from the get-go, it’s clear that George Tesman comes from a class below Hedda. Where she is formal and reserved, he is casual and open. At the least, he’s unsophisticated or, as B...

We first hear about Judge Brack as the man who helped Aunt Julie arrange to put up the money for a security deposit. Then we learn that he helped George with the finances involved in buying the "dr...

As a woman in Hedda Gabler, Mrs. Elvsted struggles with the same question as Hedda and Miss Tesman: to what or whom can she possible devote her life? Her answer is a simple one: Eilert Løvborg...

You’re probably tired of hearing us talk about women in Hedda Gabler having empty lives. But unfortunately, the same is true for Miss Tesman. She has to address this problem just like the oth...

Berta used to work as maid for Miss Julie and Miss Rina; she has been with the family since George was a little boy. Now she works as a live-in maid for George and Hedda.

George’s deceased father, brother to Miss Julie Tesman and Miss Rina.

Hedda’s deceased father.

Rina is Julie Tesman’s sister and George’s aunt. Rina is terminally ill at the beginning of the play (Julie lives with and takes care of her) and dies towards the end.

The Sheriff is Mrs. Elvsted’s husband. He's somewhat of a jerk, from what we hear.

The red-headed prostitute Eilert has seen on a number of occasions.