This is primarily a play of human relations, and because the entire play takes place in the same room of a house and all the action takes place verbally or offstage, there is little physical symbolism. Hedda's pistols are one of the few symbols. A gift from her father, the aristocratic General Gabler, they are a relic of her former aristocratic lifestyle. Thus, when she turns to the pistols to kill herself at the end, she demonstrates her frustration with the bourgeois life into which Tesman has brought her and her desire to escape back to the high-society lifestyle she left.
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I agree with this analysis of Hedda's death to a certain extent. I knew she felt weird living in a lifestyle different to the one her father provided her with but i didn't see the pistols from her father was a way to get back to the life she once lived. I saw her suicide as a way to escape the problems she could face, or also a way for her to be with Eliert forever. I didn't think the pistols were a symbol as to the lifestyle she once lived, i thought it was a symbol of her control. I can agree that he death was out of some frustration, because she was trying to blow off some steam when she played the piano. Her death was definitely not on a happy not there had to be some frustration there.
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